Historical perspective: Beginnings of the β-cell: Current perspectives in β-cell development

Diabetes

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 364-376

  Seymour, Philip A ^a   Sander, Maike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1BETA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; INSULIN; NEUROGENIN 3; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HES 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2.2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX17; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; WNT PROTEIN;

ACINAR CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN SYNTHESIS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MESODERM; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; PANCREAS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79551576112     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db10-1068     Document Type: Review

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