Postnatal β-cell proliferation and mass expansion is dependent on the transcription factor Nkx6.1

Diabetes

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 897-903

  Taylor, Brandon L ^a   Benthuysen, Jacqueline ^a   Sander, Maike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX6.1; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NKX6-1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

EID: 84962061544     PISSN: 00121797     EISSN: 1939327X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/db14-0684     Document Type: Article

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