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UT Southwestern Medical Center

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At left is a healthy islet with many insulin-producing cells (green) and few glucagon-producing cells (red). At right, this situation is altered in a diabetic islet with a heavy preponderance of glucagon-producing cells (red) and very few insulin-producing cells (green

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UT Southwestern Medical Center

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