What is paracrinology?
1 Answer
Feb 7, 2015
The term itself deals with the study and understanding of the cells within the non-β endocrine cells in pancreatic islets.
These play an essential counterpart and regulatory role to the insulin-producing β-cells in the regulation of blood-glucose homeostasis.
Diabetes appears to be a pathology of these cells.
The possibility of close interactions between α- and β-cells within the islets of Langerhans have a vital homoeostatic domain and that disruption or dysfunction of these interactions has to be considered as a key component in the pathophysiology of diabetes.
The research on these interactions is rather new and more information will be coming forth.
