Specifying pancreatic endocrine cell fates
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Specifying pancreatic endocrine cell fates
Cell replacement therapy could represent an attractive alternative to insulin injections for the treatment of diabetes. However, this approach requires a thorough understanding of the molecular switches controlling the specification of the different pancreatic cell-types in vivo. These are derived from an apparently identical pool of cells originating from the early gut endoderm, which are succ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mechanisms of Development
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0925-4773
DOI: 10.1016/j.mod.2006.05.006