pancreas
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GLP-1 receptors are expressed not just in the pancreas and stomach, but throughout the vagus nerve, the brain stem, and the hypothalamus.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2026
There have also been hundreds of reports of people suffering problems with their pancreas - although none are confirmed as being caused by the medicines.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
People with the "pancreatic-predominant" pattern showed a proton density fat fraction -- an MRI marker that provides a precise estimation of fat concentration in tissue -- of about 30 percent in the pancreas.
From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026
He had his pancreas removed a few years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of just 33 in 1994 and then had a stroke in 2016.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025
He’d had cancer of the pancreas and in the end of the liver, and Ishmael had not been there at the final moment.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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