The ghrelin cell: A novel developmentally regulated islet cell in the human pancreas

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 107, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 63-69

  Wierup, N ^a   Svensson, H ^a   Mulder, H ^a   Sundler, F ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Development; Ghrelin; Histochemistry; Human; Islets; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; MESSENGER RNA; PANCREAS HORMONE; PEPTIDE HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL POPULATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEWBORN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS; PANCREAS DUCT; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STOMACH; ADULT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC HORMONES; PEPTIDE HORMONES; RNA, MESSENGER; STOMACH; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; HUMANS;

EID: 0037098974     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(02)00067-8     Document Type: Article

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