Phytic acid: Blessing in disguise, a prime compound required for both plant and human nutrition

A Kumar, B Singh, P Raigond, C Sahu… - Food Research …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Phytic acid (PA),[myo-inositol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-hexakisphosphate] is the principal
storage compound of phosphorus (P) and account for 65%–85% of the seeds total P. The …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of obesity and insulin resistance by nitric oxide

BE Sansbury, BG Hill - Free radical biology and medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
Obesity is a risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease and has
quickly become a worldwide pandemic with few tangible and safe treatment options …

[HTML][HTML] Single-nucleus and in situ RNA–sequencing reveal cell topographies in the human pancreas

L Tosti, Y Hang, O Debnath, S Tiesmeyer, T Trefzer… - Gastroenterology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background and aims Molecular evidence of cellular heterogeneity in the human exocrine
pancreas has not been yet established, due to the local concentration and cascade of …

Integrating the inputs that shape pancreatic islet hormone release

GM Noguchi, MO Huising - Nature Metabolism, 2019 - nature.com
The pancreatic islet is a complex mini organ composed of a variety of endocrine cells and
their support cells, which together tightly control blood glucose homeostasis. Changes in …

Impact of islet architecture on β-cell heterogeneity, plasticity and function

SS Roscioni, A Migliorini, M Gegg… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Although β-cell heterogeneity was discovered more than 50 years ago, the underlying
principles have been explored only during the past decade. Islet-cell heterogeneity arises …

Practical guide to exocrine pancreatic insufficiency–breaking the myths

MR Struyvenberg, CR Martin, SD Freedman - BMC medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) is characterized by a deficiency of
exocrine pancreatic enzymes, resulting in malabsorption. Numerous conditions account for …

Critical thresholds: key to unlocking the door to the prevention and specific treatments for acute pancreatitis

SG Barreto, A Habtezion, A Gukovskaya, A Lugea… - Gut, 2021 - gut.bmj.com
Acute pancreatitis (AP), an acute inflammatory disorder of the exocrine pancreas, is one of
the most common gastrointestinal diseases encountered in emergency departments with no …

Endocrine-exocrine signaling drives obesity-associated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

KM Chung, J Singh, L Lawres, KJ Dorans, C Garcia… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Obesity is a major modifiable risk factor for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), yet
how and when obesity contributes to PDAC progression is not well understood. Leveraging …

Insulin/IGF-driven cancer cell-stroma crosstalk as a novel therapeutic target in pancreatic cancer

AC Mutgan, HE Besikcioglu, S Wang, H Friess… - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is unrivalled the deadliest gastrointestinal
cancer in the western world. There is substantial evidence implying that insulin and insulin …

Adaptive β-cell proliferation increases early in high-fat feeding in mice, concurrent with metabolic changes, with induction of islet cyclin D2 expression

RE Stamateris, RB Sharma… - American Journal of …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is caused by relative insulin deficiency, due in part to reduced β-cell
mass (,). Therapies aimed at expanding β-cell mass may be useful to treat T2D. Although …