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It is an established fact that the islets of Langerhans can contain at least four different basic cell types: insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic polypeptide (PP) cells. This applies not only to the classes of Mammalia and Aves, but is assumed to hold for all vertebrate species (Stefan and Falkmer 1978). Furthermore, the islets also contain numerous other hormones and hormone-like substances such as prostaglandins (Luyckx and Lefeèbvre 1978; Robertson 1979).
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von Dorsche, H.H., Schäfer, H., Titlbach, M. (1994). Aims of the Study. In: Histophysiology of the Obesity-Diabetes Syndrome in Sand Rats. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78945-8_2
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