It has five main parts – the tail, body, neck, head and uncinate process. The pancreas is made up of glandular tissue and a system of ducts. The main duct is the pancreatic duct which runs the length ...

Understanding the warning signs of pancreatic cancer can help individuals seek medical attention sooner, potentially ...

He demonstrated at autopsy a common opening into the duodenum of the bile duct and the pancreatic duct in a patient who had died of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, and the presence of a biliary ...

Radiologic features including the size of the lesion and its growth rate, the density of the lesion, characteristics of the wall such as nodules, septations, or calcifications, and the relationship ...

We modulated the pancreatic optical property to achieve ... USA), rabbit anti-cytokeratin 19 (CK19, duct epithelial marker) antibody (ab133496; Abcam, Cambridge, MA, USA), rabbit anti-neuron ...

Pancreas surgery might be a treatment option when the pancreas is inflamed, causing the ducts outside the pancreas to become blocked or parts of the pancreas to become damaged or infected.

The lab of Dr. Mark Magnuson, Louise B. McGavock Professor and professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at Vanderbilt ...

Numerous studies have proposed that new β cells are generated by the differentiation of adult stem cells or progenitor cells, thought to reside in pancreatic ducts, acini, islets of Langerhans ...