How to Use beta cell in a Sentence

beta cell

noun
  • No beta cells meant no insulin.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Even a small amount of beta cell mass makes a major impact on function.
    — NBC News, 9 July 2018
  • Once the beta cells are gone, the body can’t make insulin, and blood sugar control is lost.
    — New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The good news is that early treatment to reduce blood sugar can help save these beta cells.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 6 May 2024
  • Some insulin-making beta cells were as old as neurons, and did not divide.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2019
  • Sure enough, the beta cells increased in number by 700% within three months of the treatment.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 14 July 2024
  • Healthy beta cells in the islets of the pancreas produce insulin in response to a rise in blood glucose after eating.
    — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2024
  • By the time diabetes is diagnosed, most of these insulin-producing cells, called beta cells, are gone.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2019
  • The researchers hope that not only will patients be able to cut back on insulin, but also that semaglutide may turn out to protect beta cells.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Insulin, a hormone produced by the beta cells of the pancreas, moves glucose from the blood into the cells to use for energy.
    — Gary Gilles, Verywell Health, 18 Dec. 2023
  • These islets include beta cells and can be infused into a patient to restore their ability to produce their own insulin.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This protects the beta cells yet preserves the immune system’s overall ability to defend the body.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • If the sensor reports a high level of glucose, the silicon beta cell generates a signal that drives a motor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2010
  • This is a sign that there is an immune attack happening against the beta cells, indicating type 1 diabetes.
    — Dr. Brittany Bruggeman, Boston Herald, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Stem cells are immature cells that have the ability to turn into insulin-producing beta cells and to produce more cells like themselves.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Ordinarily, our bodies produce insulin in special cells called beta cells found in the pancreas.
    — Dr. Brittany Bruggeman, Boston Herald, 16 Nov. 2025
  • When glucose concentrations rise, the beta cells remain in the high-voltage burst state longer, secreting more insulin as a result.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2010
  • The treatments may also involve transplanting beta cells into someone.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers have found that nutmeg contains about 25 compounds that could help control blood sugar by improving the function of your beta cells.
    — Jillian Kubala, Health, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The researchers began with the knowledge, from previous work, that insulin resistance can spur beta cell replication.
    — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2013
  • The drug binds to a particular protein on immune system cells called T cells and reduces their ability to attack the body’s beta cells.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Long-term systemic inflammation may cause cell damage, especially to beta cells in the pancreas that make and release insulin.
    — Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 22 June 2026
  • During this quiet battle, beta cells in the pancreas are still largely intact, offering a crucial window in which to intervene and save them.
    — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 9 June 2019
  • These treatments aim to create a renewable source of beta cells or to help maintain existing beta cells by shielding them from the immune system or enabling them to evade it.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Environmental and genetic factors can lead to the destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
    — Jaclyn London, Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Type 1 diabetics lose their beta cells through a destructive immune reaction.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • For transplants, scientists are pursuing multiple sources of beta cells, including ones from a deceased donor and ones grown from other cells in a patient’s own body.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The approach was also shown to be effective in animal models where human beta cells were transplanted into mice, the release stated.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Type 1 diabetes develops when the body's immune system destroys pancreatic beta cells, the only cells in the body that make insulin.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 8 Feb. 2020
  • In Type 1 diabetes, the body mistakenly attacks and destroys beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2023

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