The bitter taste receptors we have on our tongues are also found in other organs, including the gut. A new study has ...

Researchers led by Maike Sander, scientific director of the Max Delbrück Center, have developed a vascularized organoid model ...

Dr David Johnson discusses recent findings indicating that vitamin D deficiency may contribute to the development of various ...

Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel ENTIRE – Endocrine Neoplasia Translational Research Center, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, ...

Usually, it starts in the cells that surround the pancreatic duct that feeds digestive juices into your small intestine. Endocrine cells make hormones like insulin and glucagon that help regulate ...

The grade describes how it looks under a microscope compared to normal cells. That's important because ... such as your stomach, intestine, or colon. Regional spread. The tumors have moved to ...

Image A colored transmission electron micrograph showing an intestinal endocrine cell, with granules containing serotonin in green.Credit...Steve Gschmeissner/Science Source Why It Matters ...

Hindgut (large intestine and rectum) Doctors also classify these tumors by how well the cells are organized: well-differentiated and poorly differentiated. The cells of a well-differentiated tumor are ...

Endocrine cells are the ones that secrete hormones, including insulin, and exocrine cells produce enzymes that are secreted into the small intestine and help to digest food. Ductal cells are ...

Neuroendocrine liver cancer develops in cells that produce hormones in response ... no significant difference in survival rates for small intestine neuroendocrine tumors that had and hadn ...

The pancreas secretes enzymes, or digestive juices, into the small intestine. There ... 5% comprises hundreds of thousands of endocrine cells known as islets of Langerhans. Endocrine tissue ...