Islets of Langerhans

Md. Shahidul Islam, M.D., Ph.D Associate professor, group leader, department of clinical science and education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Senior consultant physician, internal medicine, Uppsala university hospital, Uppsala, Sweden Founder president of Islet Society Editor-in-Chief, Islets Editors of the islets of Langerhans, Transient receptor potential channels, calcium signaling Recipient of career development award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, International; Anders Fredrik Regnell´s award from the Swedish Society of Medicine; Chittagong Medical College golden jubilee award. Specialist in internal medicine, certified by the National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden Ph.D. from Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Medical graduate from the Chittagong Medical College, Bangladesh Premedical from Faujdarhat Cadet College, Bangladesh   Research interest: study of signal transduction in the islet cells with a focus on the ion channels, and GPCRS, in the context of pathogenesis, and treatment of diabetes

Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Islet of Langerhans.- The Comparative Anatomy of Islets.- Approaches for Imaging Islets: Recent Advances and Future Prospects.- Islet Cell Development.- High Fat Programming of β-Cell Failure.- Electrophysiology of Islet Cells.- ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels in Health and Disease.- Role of Mitochondria in β-cell Function and Dysfunction.- Basement Membrane in Pancreatic Islet Function.- Calcium Signaling in the Islets.- Electrical Bursting, Calcium Oscillations, and Synchronization of Pancreatic Islets.- Exocytosis in Islet β-Cells.- Proteomics and Islet Research.- Wnt Signaling in Pancreatic Islets.- Mechanisms of Pancreatic β-Cell Apoptosis in Diabetes and Its Therapies.- β-Cell Function in Obese-Hyperglycemic Mice [ob/ob Mice].- Islet Structure and Function in the GK Rat.- The β-Cell in Human Type 2 Diabetes.- Clinical Approaches to Preserve β-Cell Function in Diabetes.- Immunology of β-Cell Destruction.- Prevention of β-Cell Destruction in Autoimmune Diabetes: Current Approaches and Future Prospects.- Islet Isolation for Clinical Transplantation.- Human Islet Autotransplantation: The Trail Thus Far and the Highway Ahead.- Modulation of Early Inflammatory Reactions to Promote.- Successes and Disappointments with Clinical Islet Transplantation.- Exercise-induced pancreatic islets adaptations in health and disease.- Role Reg family proteins on islet cell growth and survival.- Circadian control of islet function.- Zinc Transporters in the pancreas.- Making Islets from Human Embryonic Stem Cells.- Chloride channels and Transporters in ß-cell physiology.- Pancreatic beta cells in metabolic syndrome.- Insulin and IGF-1 receptor signalling in insulin secreting cells.- Beta cell store-operated ion channels.- Isolation of Rodent Islets of Langerhans.- Anionic Transporters  and Channels in Pancreatic Islet Cells.- Glucose-Induced Apoptosis in Pancreatics Islets.- In Vivo Biomarkers for Detection of Beta Cell Death.- Inflammatory Pathways Linked to Beta Cell Demise in Diabetes.- Islet Encapsulation.- Islet Isolation for Autotransplantation.- Islet Xenotransplantation: recent advances and future prospects.- Molecular basis of cAMP signaling in pancreatic beta cells.- NADPH Oxidase in Beta Cell Dysfunction.- Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors.- Physiological and Pathophysiological Control of Glucagon Secretion by Pancreatic Alpha-Cells.- Reproductive Hormones and Islet Adaptation to Metabolic Stress.- Stem Cells in Pancreatic Islets.- Transcriptional co-Activators in Beta-Cell Function and Disease Pathology.