Endocrine Abstracts

The effect of maternal diabetes on fetal pancreatic islets was investigated before, however an extensive and detailed quantitative immunocytochemical investigation was not found. Therefore, this investigation was conducted to examine the effect of gestational diabetes on the morphology of fetal rat islets. Sections were stained with anti-insulin (B cells) antibodies and were used for structural study. The absolute number of stained B cells per islet of the diabetic group was n...