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Pancreatic Islets and Gestalt Principles.
Article in Diabetes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Toward Guidelines for Designing Holistic Integrated Information Visualizations for Time-Critical Contexts: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Pancreatic islets: new discoveries for innovative treatments of diabetes?Diabetologia · 2026Review
- Beyond the loss of beta cells: a quantitative analysis of islet architecture in adults with and without type 1 diabetes.Diabetologia · 2025Article
- Biphasic glucose-stimulated insulin secretion over decades: a journey from measurements and modeling to mechanistic insights.Life metabolism · 2025Review
- Bridging the Gap: Pancreas Tissue Slices From Organ and Tissue Donors for the Study of Diabetes Pathogenesis.Diabetes · 2024Review
- Understanding the Structural Arrangement of Islets in Chronic Pancreatitis.The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society · 2024Article
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- Implications of Integrated Pancreatic Microcirculation: Crosstalk between Endocrine and Exocrine Compartments.Diabetes · 2020Article
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Abstract
The human brain has inherent methodology to efficiently interpret complex environmental stimuli into understanding. This visual perception is governed by the law of simplicity, which is fundamental to Gestalt theory. First introduced in a seminal article by Wertheimer in 1923, the theory explains how the mind groups similar images and fills in gaps in order to perceive an amenable version of reality. The world we see consists of complex visual scenes, but rarely is the entire picture visible to us. Since it is inefficient for all visual data to be analyzed at once, certain patterns are given higher importance and made to stand out from the rest of the field in our brain. Here we propose that Gestalt theory may explain why rodent islet architecture has historically been seen as having a core-mantle arrangement. By filling in apparent gaps in the non-β-cell lining, the mind interprets it as a "whole" mantle, which may have further led to widely accepted notions regarding islet microcirculation, intra-islet signaling, and islet development. They are largely based on the prevailing stereotypic islet architecture in which an enclosed structure is presumed. Three-dimensional analysis provides more integrated views of islet and pancreatic microcirculation.
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