In which gland in the human body would you find the small clusters of cells known as the Islets of Langerhans?
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
Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans referred to the tale as "one of (Ellison's) most ambitious and provocative tales to date." Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W" is an award-winning 1974 science fiction novelette by Harlan Ellison. It was originally published in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" in October 1974, and subsequently republished in Ellison's 1975 anthology "Deathbird Stories", in the 1991 Byron Preiss-edited anthology "The Ultimate Werewolf", and in Ellison's 2006 anthology "The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective". Larry Talbot wants to die, but cannot