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 ...

A British woman lost her life months after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which usually does not show any symptoms. According to doctors, there are no telltale early signs of this cancer, ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers have developed a simple blood test to detect pancreatic cancer before it spreads to other sites in the body. The ...

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 ...

Diseases of the pancreas and bile duct are challenging to manage. We recognize this and are here to help. UAB has launched the Pancreatobiliary Disease Center to address these problems. All patients ...

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

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 ...