"Pancreas" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nodular organ in the ABDOMEN that contains a mixture of ENDOCRINE GLANDS and EXOCRINE GLANDS. The small endocrine portion consists of the ISLETS OF LANGERHANS secreting a number of hormones into the blood stream. The large exocrine portion (EXOCRINE PANCREAS) is a compound acinar gland that secretes several digestive enzymes into the pancreatic ductal system that empties into the DUODENUM.
| Descriptor ID |
D010179
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A03.734
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pancreas" by people in Profiles.
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Reorganization of pancreas circadian transcriptome with aging. Aging (Albany NY). 2023 08 29; 15(16):7909-7921.
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Pancreatic Exocrine Secretion and Weight Gain After Pancreas Transplantation. Prog Transplant. 2023 09; 33(3):236-241.
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Two Cases of Heterotopic Pancreas of the Small Bowel Incidentally Found During Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery. CRSLS. 2022 Oct-Dec; 9(4).
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Comparative incidence and outcomes of COVID-19 in kidney or kidney-pancreas transplant recipients versus kidney or kidney-pancreas waitlisted patients: A single-center study. Clin Transplant. 2021 08; 35(8):e14362.
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Marked Elevation of Lipase in COVID-19 Disease: A Cohort Study. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2020 07; 11(7):e00215.
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Operative resection in early stage pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in the United States: Are we over- or undertreating patients? Surgery. 2020 01; 167(1):180-186.
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KRAS mutation and epithelial-macrophage interplay in pancreatic neoplastic transformation. Int J Cancer. 2018 10 15; 143(8):1994-2007.
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In silico VHL Gene Mutation Analysis and Prognosis of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors in von Hippel-Lindau Disease. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2018 04 01; 103(4):1631-1638.
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Human milk oligosaccharides protect against the development of autoimmune diabetes in NOD-mice. Sci Rep. 2018 03 01; 8(1):3829.
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Resection of primary tumor site is associated with prolonged survival in metastatic nonfunctioning pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Surgery. 2016 Jan; 159(1):311-8.