Development and diseases of the pancreas

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 14-23

  Johansson, K A ^a   Grapin Botton, Anne ^a  

^a SWISS INST FOR EXP CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Diabetes; Endoderm; Gland; Insulin; Organogenesis

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENDOCRINE CELL; EXOCRINE CELL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MATURITY ONSET DIABETES MELLITUS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS MALFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; REVIEW; TISSUE INTERACTION; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MORPHOGENESIS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036665171     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2002.620102.x     Document Type: Review

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