The islets of Langerhans is not an archipelago off the coast of Scandinavia, but a cluster of cells in which human organ?

The so-called islets of Langerhans are a group of cells in the pancreas that are responsible for secreting insulin and glucagon. They are named the German physician Paul Langerhans, who discovered them back in 1869. Believe it or not, the normal human pancreas has about 1 million of these "islets".

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