Engineered vascular beds provide key signals to pancreatic hormone-producing cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Kaufman Francis, Keren ^a   Koffler, Jacob ^a   Weinberg, Noa ^b   Dor, Yuval ^b   Levenberg, Shulamit ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA1 INTEGRIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FIBRONECTIN; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2; GROWTH FACTOR; INSULIN; PANCREAS HORMONE; POLYMER; SUBTILISIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MAFA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENGRAFTMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST; GAS EXCHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULIN RELEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PANCREAS ISLET TRANSPLANTATION; POROSITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SURVIVAL; UP-REGULATION;

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EID: 84863748175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040741     Document Type: Article

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