Pathway decision-making strategies for generating pancreatic β-cells: Systems biology or hit and miss?

Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 277-282

  Jensen, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Human embryonic stem cell; Morphogen; Stem cell; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; INSULIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MORPHOGEN; PROTEOHEPARAN SULFATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR;

BINDING AFFINITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECTODERM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; ENDODERMIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; MESODERM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOTONEURON; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PARACRINE SIGNALING; REVIEW; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; PANCREAS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 34447581037     PISSN: 1752296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MED.0b013e32827035dd     Document Type: Review

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