Urocortin 3 Marks Mature Human Primary and Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Pancreatic Alpha and Beta Cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  van der Meulen, Talitha ^a   Xie, Ruiyu ^b   Kelly, Olivia G ^c   Vale, Wylie W ^a   Sander, Maike ^b   Huising, Mark O ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Georgia Biobusiness Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; UROCORTIN III;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENDODERM; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MACACA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET ALPHA CELL; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCAGON-SECRETING CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UROCORTINS;

MUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84871276716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052181     Document Type: Article

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