"Pancreatic Hormones" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Peptide hormones secreted into the blood by cells in the ISLETS OF LANGERHANS of the pancreas. The alpha cells secrete glucagon; the beta cells secrete insulin; the delta cells secrete somatostatin; and the PP cells secrete pancreatic polypeptide.
| Descriptor ID |
D010187
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.699.587 D12.644.548.586
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