The Biology of the Pancreatic Beta Cell (Advances in Molecular and Cell Biology)

The Biology of the Pancreatic Beta-Cell (Advances in Molecular and Cell Biology) by: S.L. Howell

Publisher: Elsevier Science |1999| ISBN: 0762305479 | 366 pages | 5.63 Mb

As a result of the key advances made more than 30 years ago, specifically the ability to isolate islets of Langerhans from the pancreas, the ability to measure insulin accurately by immunoasay, and the development of microchemical techniques for studying cells and their components, many research volumes, symposium reports, and original papers have been produced. This explosion of interest has probably had at least three stimuli the inherent scientific interest in understanding secretion of the pancreatic ß-cell, the ß-cells relevance to a very common disease, the availability of funding from specific sources related to diabetes research, for instance, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International and the British Diabetic Association.