The pancreas is really two glands that are intimately mixed together into one organ. The first functional component is “exocrine” and second functional component is “endocrine”. Exocrine” cells that produce enzymes to help with the digestion of food and endocrine pancreas is composed of small islands of cells, called the islets of Langerhans.
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