Changing distribution of islets in the developing human pancreas: A computer-assisted three-dimensional reconstruction study

Pancreas

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 349-354

  Watanabe, Tadashi ^a,b,c   Yaegashi, Hiroshi ^a   Koizumi, Masaru ^b   Toyota, Takayoshi ^b   Takahashi, Tohru ^a  

^a Inst of Devmt Aging and Cancer   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Blood supply; Islet of Langerhans; Pancreas; Pancreatic duct

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032939212     PISSN: 08853177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006676-199905000-00004     Document Type: Article

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