Cellular Plasticity within the Pancreas— Lessons Learned from Development

Developmental Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 342-356

  Puri, Sapna ^a   Hebrok, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 77949878205     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.02.005     Document Type: Review

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