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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetes Obes Metab. 2014 Sep;16(0 1):96–101. doi: 10.1111/dom.12341

Figure 1. Invasive insulitis is associated with loss of islet sympathetic nerves.

Figure 1

A single pancreatic islet from a diabetic NOD mouse showing invasive insulitis (small blue cells) and sympathetic axons with varicosities (red lines and dots). Sympathetic neural density is decreased only in the infiltrated part of the islet.