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Calcium Transport and Deficient Insulin Release

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The Pathology of the Endocrine Pancreas in Diabetes

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In his doctoral thesis Paul Langerhans [55] demonstrated for the first time that the pancreas contains elements other than the exocrine acini. During the subsequent years there was only slow progress in the understanding of the pancreatic islets. The first international symposium on the pancreatic islets was held in Uppsala 1963, and 6 years later the centenary of Paul Langerhans’ discovery was celebrated in Umeå. On the latter occasion it was stated in the opening address [17] that more secrets had been revealed about the pancreatic islets since the first symposium than during the whole of the rest of the century since the discovery of the islets.

The work reported from the author’s laboratory was supported by the Swedish Medical Research Council (12X–562), the Swedish Diabetes Association, and the Nordic Insulin Foundation. The establishment of the patch clamp technique was made possible by donations from the Wallenberg Foundation and the Swedish Council for Planning and Corrdination of Research.

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  1. Division of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Sart-Tilman, B-4000, Liège 1, Belgium

    Pierre J. Lefèbvre

  2. Dept. of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, B-1090, Brussels, Belgium

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Hellman, B. (1988). Calcium Transport and Deficient Insulin Release. In: Lefèbvre, P.J., Pipeleers, D.G. (eds) The Pathology of the Endocrine Pancreas in Diabetes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72691-0_14

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