Reprogramming of human pancreatic exocrine cells to β-like cells

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1117-1130

  Lemper, M ^a   Leuckx, G ^a   Heremans, Y ^a   German, M S ^b   Heimberg, H ^a   Bouwens, L ^a   Baeyens, L ^a,b  

^a DIABETES RESEARCH CENTER   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROGENIN 3; STAT3 PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROG3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; STAT3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ACINAR CELL; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGRAFTMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LENTIVIRINAE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOLOGY; EXOCRINE PANCREAS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSPLANTATION; UPREGULATION;

MUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84930756594     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2014.193     Document Type: Article

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