Myt1 and Ngn3 form a feed-forward expression loop to promote endocrine islet cell differentiation

Developmental Biology

Volumn 317, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 531-540

  Wang, Sui ^a   Hecksher Sorensen, Jacob ^b   Xu, Yanwen ^a   Zhao, Aizhen ^a   Dor, Yuval ^c   Rosenberg, Louise ^b   Serup, Palle ^b   Gu, Guoqiang ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HAGEDORN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Compensation; Endocrine islet; Endocrine progenitor; Myt1; Pancreas; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; NEUROGENIN 3; PROTEIN MYT1B; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 43049145766     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2008.02.052     Document Type: Article

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