Pancreatic Islet Biology

This volume sheds light on storage of cells at subzero temperatures while ensuring that biological functionality is not compromised. This book provides comprehensive information on cryopreservation with a particular focus on cryoprotectant agents (CPAs).

The major purpose of this book is to offer the reader a better understanding of the challenging aspects in pancreatic pathology, starting with anatomy and following with different pancreatic pathology. More space is allotted to pancreatic cancer, including surgical procedures, and to the management of the cystic lesions of the pancreas. This book is meant to provide a thorough guide for the best approaches in some of the difficult problems in pancreatology.

This book reviews recent advances in pancreatic endocrine and exocrine tissue development, function and regeneration. It provides a comprehensive overview on different aspects of beta-cell biology, including heterogeneity of function and gene expression and function, epigenetics, RNA and protein expression contributions to beta-cell specification and cell-fate maintenance. Furthermore, it covers recent progress in differentiating functional islets in vivo, environmental impacts on beta-cell development and function, and communications between various islet endocrine cells and how they contribute to the regulation of blood glucose homeostasis.

This book addresses many issues of chronic pancreatitis and it is divided into two sections: basic science investigations in animal models of chronic pancreatitis and a clinical section on the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pancreatitis. This book will be valued by basic scientists and clinicians striving to understand the mechanisms of pain in chronic pancreatitis and the treatment options in patients so afflicted.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of diabetes chronic clinical entity, focusing on causes, development, and management. It includes chapters that address such topics as managing diabetes using insulin and medical devices such as pens and pumps, how lifestyle affects diabetes, biomarkers for the disease, and much more.

In this volume, the focus is on islet transplantation, interesting topics dealing with corneal and peripheral nerve transplantation and decellularization are covered.

This book covers different fields of inflammation that can be classified into acute or chronic in response to trauma, infection, and exposure to other noninfectious agents, including allergens and xenobiotics. The book will prove beneficial to researchers and scientists involved in inflammation research.

by Baljendra S. Kapoor (Author), Jonathan M. Lorenz (Author)
Comprehensively covers the rich spectrum of radiologic digestive disease interventions