Nkx6 transcription factors and Ptf1a function as antagonistic lineage determinants in multipotent pancreatic progenitors

Developmental Cell

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1022-1029

  Schaffer, Ashleigh E ^a,b   Freude, Kristine K ^b   Nelson, Shelley B ^b   Sander, Maike ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NKX6 1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; NKX6-1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PTF1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; PANCREAS; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77955978501     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2010.05.015     Document Type: Article

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