Pancreatic islets and transdifferentiate into beta cells in both healthy and diabetic human and mouse pancreatic islets, a possible future source for beta cell regeneration. Pancreatic islets The pancreatic islets or islets of Langerhans are the regions of the pancreas that contain its endocrine (hormone-producing) cells, discovered in 1869 by German pathological anatomist Paul Langerhans. The pancreatic islets constitute 1 to 2% of the pancreas volume and receive 10–15% of its blood flow. The pancreatic islets are arranged in density routes throughout the human pancreas, and are important in the metabolism of glucose. There are about 3 million islets distributed in the
Karataş Islets Karataş Islets Karataş Islets are two Mediterranean islets in Turkey. The islands face Karataş ilçe (district) of Adana Province at and .Their distance to Karataş is less than . The area of the western islet is about and the area of the eastern islet is about . According to the municipality of Karataş these two islets were named "Didimae" in the antiquity. Currently, the islands are uninhabited. But, the ruins around the islets show that these islets were inhabited in the antiquity. According to the researcher İsa Besiç, during the construction of some 19th-century buildings in the mainland (Anatolia) construction