Using pancreas tissue slices for in situ studies of islet of Langerhans and acinar cell biology

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2809-2822

  Marciniak, Anja ^a,b,c   Cohrs, Christian M ^a,b,c   Tsata, Vasiliki ^a,b,c   Chouinard, Julie A ^a,b,c   Selck, Claudia ^a,b,c   Stertmann, Julia ^a,b,c   Reichelt, Saskia ^a,b,c   Rose, Tobias ^d   Ehehalt, Florian ^e   Weitz, Jürgen ^e   Solimena, Michele ^b,c,f   Slak Rupnik, Marjan ^g,h   Speier, Stephan ^a,c  

^a CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE THERAPIES DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINAR CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE CELL; EXOCRINE CELL; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSULIN RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SLICE; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROTOMY; MOUSE; PANCREAS; PIG; PROCEDURES; RAT;

ACINAR CELLS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICE; MICROTOMY; PANCREAS; RATS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84911462981     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.195     Document Type: Article

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