Lineage determinants in early endocrine development

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 673-684

  Rieck, Sebastian ^a   Bankaitis, Eric D ^a   Wright, Christopher V E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching morphogenesis; Endocrine subtype specification and maturation; Gene regulatory network; Human embryonic stem cells; Human pancreas; Islet; Multipotent progenitor cell; Pancreas organogenesis; Plexus remodeling; Primary transition; Reprogramming; Secondary transition; Tip trunk compartmentalization; Transcription factor; Tubulogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

EID: 84865167499     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: 10963634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2012.06.005     Document Type: Review

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