endocrine pancreas

The part of the pancreas that is part of the endocrine system and is made up of islet cells, which produce insulin, glucagon and somatostatin. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the endocrine pancreas is

The part of the pancreas that is part of the endocrine system and is made up of islet cells, which produce insulin, glucagon and somatostatin. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the endocrine pancreas is

It sits in the trunk, within the endocrine system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the endocrine pancreas connects to

The atlas records 9 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of compound organ, endocrine system and pancreas.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the endocrine pancreas. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as endocrine pancreas, pars endocrina pancreatis, endocrine part of pancreas and islets of Langerhans part of pancreas. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0000016, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: compound organ, endocrine system and pancreas.
• A kind of: anatomical structure and material anatomical entity.
• contributes to morphology of: pancreas and islet of Langerhans.
• composed of: islet of Langerhans.
• contains: islet of Langerhans.

Questions

Where is the endocrine pancreas?

It sits in the trunk, within the endocrine system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What does the endocrine pancreas connect to?

Part of: compound organ, endocrine system and pancreas.

Is the endocrine pancreas the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.