@article{3079869,
    title = "The size of the langerhans’ islets in infants with severe jaundice of varying etiology",
    author = "Nicolopoulos, D. and Hadjigeorgiou, E. and Kaslaris, E. and Moschos, A.",
    journal = "Neonatologie Scan",
    year = "1973",
    volume = "22",
    number = "5-6",
    pages = "348-354",
    doi = "10.1159/000240567",
    keywords = "bilirubin;  glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase, blood group ABO incompatibility;  developmental biology;  endocrinology;  hemolysis;  histology;  hypoglycemia;  jaundice;  methodology;  newborn;  newborn jaundice;  normal human;  pancreas islet;  pancreas islet beta cell;  rhesus incompatibility;  rhesus isoimmunization;  theoretical study, ABO Blood-Group System;  Bilirubin;  Birth Weight;  Blood Group Incompatibility;  Female;  Glucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency;  Hemolysis;  Human;  Hyperplasia;  Infant, Newborn;  Islets of Langerhans;  Jaundice, Neonatal;  Male;  Pregnancy;  Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic;  Rh-Hr Blood-Group System",
    abstract = "The histological specimens of the pancreas of 33 newborn jaundiced infants were examined and compared to 35 controls. In 4 babies the jaundice was due to Rhesus incompatibility, in 8 to ABO incompatibility, in 13 to G-6-PD deficiency and in 8 the etiology of jaundice could not be ascertained. The Langerhans’ islets were found to be hyperplastic not only in the 4 infants, whose severe jaundice was due to Rhesus incompatibility, but, to a lesser degree, in the majority of the other jaundiced infants’ pancreas as well. The surface of the Langer-hans’ islets was well correlated with the highest bilirubin level in all groups of jaundiced infants. © 1973 S. Karger AG, Basel."
}