A portrait of the pancreatic B-Cell - The Minkowski award lecture delivered on July 19, 1973, during the VIIIth congress of the international diabetes Federation, held in Brussels, Belgium

Diabetologia

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1974, Pages 163-187

  Orci, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cell coat; cytochemistry; electron microscopy; emiocytosis; endocytosis; exocytosis; freeze etching; gap junctions; insulin biosynthesis; insulin release; Insulin producing cell; islet junctional complexes; membrane recycling; radioautography; tight junc tions

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; PROINSULIN; RADIOISOTOPE;

CELL; CELL CONTACT INHIBITION; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRANULE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN RELEASE; LEUCINE H 3; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS PROTEINASE; SECRETORY GRANULE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DESMOSOMES; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EXOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FREEZE ETCHING; GOLGI APPARATUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MEMBRANES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANCREAS; PROINSULIN;

EID: 0016190409     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: 14320428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00423031     Document Type: Review

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