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islet of Langerhans

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000006

The clusters of hormone-producing cells that are scattered throughout the pancreas. [ MP:0005215 MESH:A03.734.414 http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/AMA.cgi?id=MA:0000127 ]

Synonyms: pancreatic islet, pancreatic insula

Term info

database cross reference
  • MESH:D007515
  • EMAPA:32927
  • EFO:0000856
  • AAO:0010406
  • MIAA:0000076
  • EV:0100130
  • VHOG:0000646
  • XAO:0000159
  • FMA:16016
  • UMLS:C0022131 (ncithesaurus:Islet_of_Langerhans)
  • MAT:0000076
  • NCIT:C12608
  • CALOHA:TS-0741
  • Wikipedia:Islets_of_Langerhans
  • GAID:324
  • BTO:0000991
  • MA:0000127
Subsets

uberon_slim, efo_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

UBPROP 0000001

Anatomical structure which consists of glands developed from pancreatic ducts in the larvae and secrete insulin.[AAO]

UBPROP 0000003

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]

UBPROP 0000008

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)

UBPROP 0000202

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/FMA_76489

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Gray1105.png

has related synonym

island of pancreas, island of Langerhans, islets of Langerhans

id

UBERON:0000006

prefLabel

Pancreatic islet

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606