The clusters of hormone-producing cells that are scattered throughout the pancreas. [ MP:0005215 http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/AMA.cgi?id=MA:0000127 MESH:A03.734.414 ]
Synonyms: pancreatic islet pancreatic insula
Term information
- MAT:0000076
- VHOG:0000646
- AAO:0010406
- CALOHA:TS-0741
- GAID:324
- UMLS:C0022131 (ncithesaurus:Islet_of_Langerhans)
- FMA:16016
- EV:0100130
- MA:0000127
- BTO:0000991
- EMAPA:32927
- XAO:0000159
- EFO:0000856
- MIAA:0000076
- MESH:D007515
- NCIT:C12608
- Wikipedia:Islets_of_Langerhans
uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
Anatomical structure which consists of glands developed from pancreatic ducts in the larvae and secrete insulin.[AAO]
Mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians have a pancreas with similar histology and mode of development, while in some fish, the islet cells are segregated as Brockmann bodies.[well established][VHOG]
A primitive exocrine pancreas can be found in holocephalan cartilaginous fish; a pancreatic duct directly ending in the gut lumen is connected to a glandular structure made of exocrine cells and associated with cell islets, which comprises three different hormone-producing cell types: insulin, somatostatin and glucagon (Yui and Fujita, 1986)
Term relations
- cell cluster
- endoderm-derived structure
- environment associated with an animal part or small animal
- cell cluster
- cellular anatomical structure
- contributes to morphology of some endocrine pancreas
- has part some insulin secreting cell
- has part some somatostatin secreting cell
- part of some endocrine pancreas
- has part some type A enteroendocrine cell