Dr. Anju Goel, MD, MPH, is a public health consultant and physician with more than 10 years of experience in the California public health system. The pancreas is an organ that makes enzymes for ...

Gut microbes can regulate the exocrine and endocrine functions of the pancreas and hormone production of the gastrointestinal tract, findings that may help develop potential treatments for diabetes ...

The pancreas is a complex organ that consists of two parts: exocrine, which secretes digestive enzymes into the gut; and endocrine, which secretes the four hormones insulin, glucagon, somatostatin and ...

You can live without a pancreas, but it requires ongoing treatment. Islet autotransplantation is a procedure that can help with insulin production after pancreas removal. An artificial pancreas helps ...

Here we look at a function as a mapping diagram. The inputs to the function g are along the real number line a the top, the outputs of g are on the real number line in the middle. The green point A ...

Celiac disease can cause dehydration due to diarrhea and nutrient malabsorption. Sjögren's disease can lead to dehydration by ...

1 Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States 2 Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Research, ...