Neurogenin 3 expressing cells in the human exocrine pancreas have the capacity for endocrine cell fate

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Gomez, Danielle L ^a   O'Driscoll, Marci ^a   Sheets, Timothy P ^b,e   Hruban, Ralph H ^b   Oberholzer, Jose ^c,d   McGarrigle, James J ^c   Shamblott, Michael J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; CD133 ANTIGEN; CHROMOGRANIN A; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROGENIN 3; NOTCH RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; TRANSCRIPTOME; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; INSULIN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROG3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PEPTIDE; PROM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROM1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ACINAR CELL; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS; PANCREAS BIOPSY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; EXOCRINE PANCREAS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL;

AC133 ANTIGEN; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; C-PEPTIDE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOCRINE CELLS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PANCREAS, EXOCRINE; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84942683902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133862     Document Type: Article

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