Islet cell development

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 654, Issue , 2010, Pages 59-75

  Rojas, Anabel ^b   Khoo, Adrian ^b   Tejedo, Juan R ^b   Bedoya, Francisco J ^b   Soria, Bernat ^b   Martín, Franz ^a  

^a CABIMER Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine CSIC University of Seville UPO   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

cell; Endocrine cells; Endocrine progenitors; Endoderm; Islet cell fate; MafA; Neurogenin3; Pancreas development; PDX1; Ptf1; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GLUCAGON; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1BETA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; INSULIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROGENIN 3; SOMATOSTATIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ISL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PTF1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROG3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NEUROG3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ACINAR CELL; ARTICLE; CELL BASED GENE THERAPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SECRETION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; GASTRULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; INSULIN RELEASE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS; PANCREAS DEVELOPMENT; PANCREAS ISLET ALPHA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PANCREAS ISLET DELTA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PANCREAS ISLET; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PANCREAS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77953948175     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3271-3_4     Document Type: Article

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