Newly Recognized Pathway Could Protect Diabetics from Hypoglycemia (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Newly Recognized Pathway Could Protect Diabetics from Hypoglycemia

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A newly discovered pathway shows that pancreatic delta cells can act through a negative feedback loop to prevent beta cells from producing too much insulin and causing a drastic drop in blood sugar. This image of a mouse pancreatic islet shows the insulin-producing beta cells (blue), somatostatin-producing delta cells (white), and the membranes of all cell types (red). 

 

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Mohammad Pourhosseinzadeh, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences

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