islet

Example Sentences

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Along with another islet, Siri, "these islands have been fortified, turned into mini-fortresses with anti-ship missiles", Pierre Razoux from the France-based Mediterranean Foundation for Strategic Studies told AFP recently.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

They were recognized as foreign tissue and were also targeted by an immune system already primed to attack islet cells from any source.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

In a separate group of animals with long-standing Type 1 diabetes, nine out of nine were cured after receiving the combined blood stem cell and islet cell transplant.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

In type 1 diabetes, for example, the immune system destroys pancreatic islet cells, while these suppressor cells just stand by.

From Science Daily • Dec. 5, 2024

He looked around him and realized he’d lost any sense of where the islet was.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook