 Pancreas
"Pancreas" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nodular organ in the ABDOMEN that contains a mixture of ENDOCRINE GLANDS and EXOCRINE GLANDS. The small endocrine portion consists of the ISLETS OF LANGERHANS secreting a number of hormones into the blood stream. The large exocrine portion (EXOCRINE PANCREAS) is a compound acinar gland that secretes several digestive enzymes into the pancreatic ductal system that empties into the DUODENUM.
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D010179
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A03.734
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pancreas" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pancreas" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1980 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1982 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1983 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1984 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1985 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1986 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1987 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1988 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1990 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 1991 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1993 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1996 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 1997 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2002 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2009 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2010 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2012 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2014 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pancreas" by people in Profiles.
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Angelo JR, Tremblay KD. Identification and fate mapping of the pancreatic mesenchyme. Dev Biol. 2018 03 01; 435(1):15-25.
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Masciocchi M. Pancreatic Imaging. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2017 Sep; 46(3):761-781.
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Prinz P, Goebel-Stengel M, Teuffel P, Rose M, Klapp BF, Stengel A. Peripheral and central localization of the nesfatin-1 receptor using autoradiography in rats. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2016 Feb 12; 470(3):521-7.
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Afghani E, Pandol SJ, Shimosegawa T, Sutton R, Wu BU, Vege SS, Gorelick F, Hirota M, Windsor J, Lo SK, Freeman ML, Lerch MM, Tsuji Y, Melmed GY, Wassef W, Mayerle J. Acute Pancreatitis-Progress and Challenges: A Report on an International Symposium. Pancreas. 2015 Nov; 44(8):1195-210.
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Nostro MC, Sarangi F, Yang C, Holland A, Elefanty AG, Stanley EG, Greiner DL, Keller G. Efficient generation of NKX6-1+ pancreatic progenitors from multiple human pluripotent stem cell lines. Stem Cell Reports. 2015 Apr 14; 4(4):591-604.
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Habibi H, Devuni D, Rossi L. Ectopic pancreas: a rare cause of abdominal pain. Conn Med. 2014 Sep; 78(8):479-80.
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Thangasamy SJ, Zheng L, Mcintosh L, Lee P, Roychowdhury A. Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI findings of acute pancreatitis in ectopic pancreatic tissue: case report and review of the literature. JOP. 2014 Jul; 15(4):407-10.
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diIorio P, Rittenhouse AR, Bortell R, Jurczyk A. Role of cilia in normal pancreas function and in diseased states. Birth Defects Res C Embryo Today. 2014 Jun; 102(2):126-38.
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Davies CC, Harvey E, McMahon RF, Finegan KG, Connor F, Davis RJ, Tuveson DA, Tournier C. Impaired JNK signaling cooperates with KrasG12D expression to accelerate pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Cancer Res. 2014 Jun 15; 74(12):3344-56.
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Brook OR, Mullan CP, Mendiratta-Lala M, Joyce R, Sheiman R, Brook A, Siewert B. Pancreatic atrophy in patients with chronic graft-versus-host disease. Abdom Imaging. 2014 Apr; 39(2):342-7.
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