Specifying pancreatic endocrine cell fates

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 501-512

  Collombat, Patrick ^a   Hecksher Sørensen, Jacob ^b   Serup, Palle ^b   Mansouri, Ahmed ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b HAGEDORN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arx; Development; Diabetes; Endocrine pancreas; Fate specification; Mouse; Pax4; Stem cells; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL FATE; CELL LINE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINE CELL; ENDODERM; INTESTINE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET ALPHA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET DELTA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; PANCREAS;

EID: 33746817104     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2006.05.006     Document Type: Review

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