The connection was further narrowed down to the islets of Langerhans, a part of the pancreas. From 1910 to 1920, Oscar Minkowski and others tried unsuccessfully to find and extract the active ...

Victoria Acosta has spent her childhood going in and out of hospitals, battling a diagnosis that came when she was just nine ...

New research presented suggests that eating gluten-rich cereal, as well as some fruits in early childhood could increase the ...

Excess niacin in the bloodstream activates Langerhans cells in the skin, which regulate immune function. These cells trigger ...

What is their role in diabetes? Islet cells, located within the pancreas in small clusters known as islets of Langerhans, ...

The dengue virus also infects and replicates inside a specialized immune cell located in the skin, a type of dendritic cell called a Langerhans cell. What are Langerhans cells? Langerhans cells ...

He went to a 3-2 count on rookie Ryan Langerhans before striking him out swinging. His decision had been made. "Since I announced to the Phillies that I was retiring, I haven't thought ...

and/or a delayed reaction due to IgE-bearing Langerhans' cells. Management involves avoidance of the allergen. The term "protein contact dermatitis" was coined by Hjorth and Roed-Petersen in 1976 ...

The initial hyperglycemia, resulting from the lag in insulin secretion, acts as a supernormal stimulus to the islands of Langerhans with enough insulin produced to cause hypoglycemia. Yalow and ...

This signal could be linked to tissue resident immune cells, Langerhans cells," says Julia C. Lang, Postdoctoral researcher at AIMES and first author of the article. The rise in antimicrobial ...

Iowa football will have plenty of new faces in the stands when it takes on Troy at Kinnick Stadium on Sept. 14.  Amid the ...

A breach in the gut immunity and crossreactivity of the IgE antibodies with skin antigens or direct interaction with specific IgE, Fc receptors on Langerhans cells, mast cells, monocytes ...