Talk:Pancreas

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[edit] Looking for transplant / removal / supplementation information

Someone, I'd please like to see the following information in ALL articles about mammalian organs :

1. If the organ fails or is removed, what happens to the patient (i.e. death within minutes for the heart, maybe a week for the kidneys, give me a rough idea of what will happen and when.)

2. Can we transplant this organ with current medical technology ?? What is the history of transplant research ? If we cannot transplant the organ, can we subsume its function by injections or other human-assisted methods?

-- SystemBuilder 21:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Error in the history section

The history section reads: men are the only ones that have a pancreas

The pancreas was discovered by Herophilus (335-280 BC), a Greek anatomist and surgeon. Only a few hundred years before, Ruphos, another Greek anatomist, gave the pancreas its name.

I have difficulty accepting that the pancreas was named "a few hundred years before" it was discovered. I don't know how to correctly correct the passage, though.

--Suttkus 04:22, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] acinar cell not only in pancreas

Someone please research this but I believe acinar cells are also found in other areas besides the pancreas.

For example. In my microanatomy / histology book, i am looking at a slide of acinar cells from the urethral gland of a mouse...

I'm assuming that gland secretes mucus for semen.

Please make sure that when you type in acinar cell - you do not automatically get routed to the pancreas.


--Tkjazzer 23:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Weird Al Yankovic

A reference to Weird Al's song of the same name doesn't fit in this article. There have most likely been hundreds of pop culture references to the pancreas that have no business being in a scholarly article on a major organ. Forteblast 20:32, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

-I don't think the "references in pop culture" belongs in this article. I don't see any section like this in the small intestine or the kidney article.

I agree. So who is going to remove it? Mbbradford 19:36, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

There are other articles which have pop culture references, such as Flowers for Algernon. I know it is completely different, but popular conception of the pancreas is part of its history, and should be in this article. VashiDonsk 02:48, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

The Islets of Langerhans article references the same song. It might as well be here too. --Ctrl-Alt-Elite 03:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I suggest that someone who actually paid attention in their Biology classes listen to the song... If all the "facts" in the lyrics are true and accurate, I'd like to see a section about the Weird Al song. How many other songs are there wholly about a single organ? Emyr42 19:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, all the biological information on the song is completely accurate. There's a bridge that contains a small error, but it's about phisics. I say the song should be included in the article. Mike

[edit] Edibility

Am I the only one who thinks that this scientific article is inherantly about human anatomy? In other words, the edibility part has a Dr. Hannibal Lector thing going on. Let's remove it, or at least rewrite it as the history of the term (and please, no sweatbreads ...) Mbbradford 19:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Here is the section I removed today, in case someone feels strongly that it should be put back mbbradford 20:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC):

==Edibility==
Pancreas comes from the Greek pankreas (a combination of pan and kreas) which means 'all meat'.[1] Kreas in Homeric literature meant edible animal flesh. An example of one such food that can be made from the pancreas of a calf, lamb or pig is sweetbread.

[edit] Function

Great article. Too bad it doesn't actually mention anywhere what the PANCREAS DOES.

[edit] request new section: arterial supply

since there is collateral circulation of the head the pancreas with celiac and SMA, I think we could get more in to the anatomy and clincial relationships of the blood supply. I think the blood supply deserves its own section. More is needed than just the template under the picture. It needs to be explained in prose what each artery does in relationship to the pancreas. and the branches from the main arteries should all be in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.151.242.18 (talk) 21:31, 17 May 2008 (UTC)