Chapter 1: Introduction--Chapter 2: Integumentary System----Skin and subcutaneous tissue--
Chapter 3: Mammary Gland--Chapter 4: Haemopoietic and Lymphatic Systems …

When working with isolated islet preparations, measuring the volume of tissue is not a trivial
matter. Islets come in a large range of sizes and are often contaminated with exocrine tissue …

Background The function and viability of cultured, transplanted, or encapsulated pancreatic
islets is often limited by hypoxia because these islets have lost their vasculature during the …

Barriers to the use of islet transplantation as a practical treatment for diabetes include the
limited number of available donor pancreata. This project was designed to determine …

Islets form in the pancreas after the first endocrine cells have arisen as either single cells or
small cell clusters in the epithelial cords. These cords constitute the developing pancreas in …

The ability to consistently and reliably assess the total number and the size distribution of
isolated pancreatic islet cells from a small sample is of crucial relevance for the adequate …

For the past 30 y, data have suggested that unique islet populations exist, based on
morphology and glucose sensitivity. Yet little has been done to determine the mechanism of …

The existence of morphologically distinct populations of islets in the pancreas was described
over 60 years ago. Unfortunately, little attention has been paid to possible functional …

For isolated pancreatic islet cell preparations, it is important to be able to reliably assess
their mass and quality, and for clinical applications, it is part of the regulatory requirement …

The New world primates (NWP) Callithrix jacchus separated from man approximately
50million years ago and is a potential alternative small non-human primate model for …