Impact of islet architecture on β-cell heterogeneity, plasticity and function

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 695-709

  Roscioni, Sara S ^a,b   Migliorini, Adriana ^a,b   Gegg, Moritz ^a,b   Lickert, Heiko ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD9 ANTIGEN; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 2; INSULIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PDX 1; UVOMORULIN; WNT PROTEIN; FLATTOP PROTEIN, MOUSE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CELL CONTACT; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL PLASTICITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL SUBPOPULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PANCREAS ISLET; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PLASTICITY; CELL POLARITY; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84984911593     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2016.147     Document Type: Review

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