Differentiation of human liver-derived, insulin-producing cells toward the β-cell phenotype

Diabetes

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2568-2575

  Zalzman, Michal ^a   Anker Kitai, Leeat ^a   Efrat, Shimon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; INSULIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN RELEASE; LIVER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACTIVINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATOCYTES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INHIBIN-BETA SUBUNITS; INSULIN; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NIACINAMIDE; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VENOMS;

EID: 24144467428     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.54.9.2568     Document Type: Article

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