The Diabetic Pancreas

ISBN-13: 9781468423273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 600 str.

Bruno Volk

Opis

I consider it an honor to have been asked to write the Foreword for The Diabetic Pancreas. Although I have been involved in the study of the pancreas since 1921, my interest goes back even further to the time, in 1918, that my father's sister, a nurse who had trained at the Massachusetts General Hospit.al, devel oped diabetes, lost weight, and died in diabetic coma. This sad event made a deep impression on me and was certainly pardy responsible for my choosing to join the Department of Physiology of the University of Toronto to begin a career in research into diabetes. This is not the place to describe in detail the wide-ranging research and study of the diabetic pancreas in which I have engaged in the past 56 years. Suffice it to say that I am familiar enough with the subject area to be able to predict a great future for this book. The editors have undertaken a very ambitious and worthwhile project, and their efforts have been supported and strengthened by contributors who are respected authorities in their fields, thus ensuring a successful presentation of this major work."

Spis treści

1 Historical Review.- 2 Comparative Morphology of Pancreatic Islets in Animals.- 3 Growth Pattern of Pancreatic Islets in Animals.- 4 Histology, Cell Types, and Functional Correlation of Islets of Langerhans.- 5 Quantitative Studies of the Islets of Nondiabetic Patients.- 6 Histochemistry and Electron Microscopy of Islets.- 7 Morphology of Membrane Systems in Pancreatic Islets.- 8 The Physiology of Insulin Release.- 9 Idiopathic Diabetes.- 10 Pathogenic Considerations of Idiopathic Diabetes.- 11 Hormonal Diabetes.- 12 Pancreatitis, Pancreatic Lithiasis, and Diabetes Mellitus.- 13 Cancer and Diabetes.- 14 Hemochromatosis and Diabetes.- 15 The Pathology of Juvenile Diabetes.- 16 The Islets of Infants of Diabetic Mothers.- 17 Spontaneous Diabetes in Animals.- 18 Chemically and Hormonally Induced Diabetes.- 19 Viral Diabetes.- 20 Effects of Sulfonylureas on the Pancreas.- 21 Islet Transplantation.- 22 Endocrine Tumors of the Pancreas.