Previous and recent opinions on the pancreatic development and development of diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Publication describes our historical and present level of knowledge about the pancreas development. The fytogenetic development was mentioned as well as present concept dependent on the progress in molecular biology.

It allowed better identification of causes and mechanisms inducing diabetes mellitus

Keywords

• pancreas
• diabetes mellitus
• histology
• embryology
• comparative histology
• immunohistochemistry
• ultrastructural cytology
• molecular biology