A possibility to study the islets of Langerhans in a mouse eye is reported by NyTeknik on the 2nd of December 2013. Researchers in P-O Berggren’s group have come with a solution to study diabetes progress and effectiveness of a treatment program and exercising. If one places insulin-producing islets of Langerhans into a mouse eye, …
InSight Technology was recently reported on by Swedish news channel TV4. See more: Ny forskning ger hopp för diabetiker. TV4 2013/11/28
InSight Technology has been used to show the pancreatic islets of Langerhans adapt their content of insulin-producing beta-cells to changing insulin need. The results are published in PNAS in November 2013. Blood glucose levels vary in an individual from one meal to the next as well as between meals. Variation can also seen between individuals. …
Swedish daily newspaper DN reports on the possibility to study islets of Langerhans in the eye on the 19th of November 2013. DN presents InSight Technology and its possibilities in an article published on the 19th of November 2013. Islets of Langerhans are placed into a mouse eye. They reflect the processes happening in the islets …
Swedish news channel SVT Vetenskap reports on the InSight Technology on the 19th of November 2013. The islets of Langerhans placed in the mouse eye behave in the same way as the islets in the pancreas. It opens for a possibility to study the progress of diabetes by looking into a patient’s eye. One can …
Swedish Crown Princess Victoria visited Rolf Luft Research Center at KI and Professor P-O Berggren’s group on the 14th of November, the International Diabetes Day. During the visit, the Crown Princess got introduced to diabetes and its complications, as well as to new findings, the research group’s projects and InSight Technology. Read more: Report published …
On the 26th of September the European Research Council (ERC) announced 284 senior research leaders, who will be awarded funding after the last Advanced Grant competition. The competition was carried out under the EU’s Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). Professor P-O Berggren is one of the 8 Swedish researchers to receive the Advanced ERC Grant. The …
The exact cause of either type 1 or type 2 diabetes still remains unknown. Inflammation of the insulin-producing islets of Langerhans seems to be one of the common denominators during the early stage of both diseases. InSight Technology is a promising analytical tool for studying the inflammation processes. The review is published in Diabetes, Obesity …
Signal transduction between the diabetogenic blood factor apolipoprotein CIII (apoCIII) and insulin-producing beta cells is now clarified. ApoCIII acts upon the calcium channels through kinases PKA and Src, involving a receptor SR-BI and an integrin beta1. The results are published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences on the 15th of August 2013. Calcium is very …
Advantages of and protocols for using InSight Technology as an imaging platform are presented in the March 2013 issue of the Journal of Visualized Experiments. Intravital, performed in the living organism, imaging has become an important tool in life sciences. A number of different technologies have emerged over the years and have been adapted to …