Human Islet Morphology Revisited: Human and Rodent Islets Are Not So Different After All

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 604-612

  Bonner Weir, Susan ^a   Sullivan, Brooke A ^a   Weir, Gordon C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

human islets; islet architecture; islet composition; mantle core

Indexed keywords

CD34 ANTIGEN; GLUCAGON; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

ACINAR CELL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL COMPOSITION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPEROXIDASE STAINING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; RAT; YOUNG ADULT;

RODENTIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RATS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938321919     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: 15515044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/0022155415570969     Document Type: Article

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