Endocrinology & Metabolic Syndrome
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Subhankar Chowdhury

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• Review Article
  A Look Inside the Pancreas: The Endocrine-Exocrine Cross-talk?
  Author(s): Partha Pratim Chakraborty and Subhankar Chowdhury Partha Pratim Chakraborty and Subhankar Chowdhury
  
  Though the pancreas has traditionally been considered a combination of two separate organ systems, both the exocrine and endocrine portions are structurally and functionally interrelated. Disease processes diffusely involving the pancreas can give rise to both endocrine and exocrine dysfunctions and pancreatic diseases account for less than 0.5% of all cases of diabetes. Chronic pancreatitis and fibrocalculous pancreatic diabetes are the two most common diseases of the exocrine pancreas which can give rise to beta cell dysfunction and diabetes. On the contrary, prominent changes in the structure and functions of the exocrine pancreas have been identified in a significant number of the commonly encountered forms of diabetes, where exocrine insufficiency is unexpected otherwise. A number of hypotheses have been put forward by different workers at different time frames to explain the mechan.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-1017.1000160

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