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somatostatin and
pancreatic polypeptide. As a part of the
digestive system, it
functions as an
exocrine gland secreting pancreatic juice into the duodenum...
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types of
pancreatic cancer are known. The most common,
pancreatic adenocarcinoma,
accounts for
about 90% of cases, and the term "
pancreatic cancer" is...
- The
pancreatic islets or
islets of
Langerhans are the
regions of the
pancreas that
contain its
endocrine (hormone-producing) cells,
discovered in 1869...
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Pancreatic enzymes, also
known as pancreases,
pancrelipases or
pancreatins are
commercial mixtures of amylase, lipase,
protease and lactase. They are used...
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pancreatitis are a
gallstone blocking the
common bile duct
after the
pancreatic duct has joined; and
heavy alcohol use.
Other causes include direct trauma...
- The
pancreatic duct or duct of
Wirsung (also, the
major pancreatic duct due to the
existence of an
accessory pancreatic duct) is a duct
joining the pancreas...
- A
pancreatic pseudocyst is a cir****scribed
collection of
fluid rich in
pancreatic enzymes, blood, and non-necrotic tissue,
typically located in the lesser...
- pancreas.
Causes include a
gallstone impacted in the
common bile duct or the
pancreatic duct,
heavy alcohol use,
systemic disease, trauma,
elevated calcium levels...
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Pancreatic diseases are
diseases that
affect the pancreas, an
organ in most
vertebrates and in
humans and
other mammals located in the abdomen. The pancreas...
- and also to
secrete digestive /
exocrinic pancreatic juice,
which is
secreted eventually via the
pancreatic duct into the duodenum.
Digestive or exocrine...
