Rat pancreatic islet is formed by unification of multiple endocrine cell clusters

Developmental Dynamics

Volumn 236, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3451-3458

  Hara, Akemi ^a,b   Kadoya, Yuichi ^a   Kojima, Itaru ^b   Yamashina, Shohei ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Islet; Mantle core arrangement; Morphogenesis; Pancreas; Proliferation; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; INSULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE CELL; ENDODERM; EPITHELIUM; EXOCRINE GLAND; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 37249025082     PISSN: 10588388     EISSN: 10970177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.21359     Document Type: Article

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