Engineering islets from stem cells for advanced therapies of diabetes

J Siehler, AK Blöchinger, M Meier… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that affects more than 460 million people
worldwide. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune destruction of β-cells, whereas …

Human pancreas development

RE Jennings, AA Berry, JP Strutt, DT Gerrard… - …, 2015 - journals.biologists.com
A wealth of data and comprehensive reviews exist on pancreas development in mammals,
primarily mice, and other vertebrates. By contrast, human pancreatic development has been …

Pancreatic islet enhancer clusters enriched in type 2 diabetes risk-associated variants

L Pasquali, KJ Gaulton, SA Rodríguez-Seguí… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Type 2 diabetes affects over 300 million people, causing severe complications and
premature death, yet the underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. Pancreatic …

Pancreas organogenesis: from bud to plexus to gland

FC Pan, C Wright - Developmental dynamics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreas oganogenesis comprises a coordinated and highly complex interplay of signaling
events and transcriptional networks that guide a step‐wise process of organ development …

neurogenin3 is required for the development of the four endocrine cell lineages of the pancreas

G Gradwohl, A Dierich, M LeMeur… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - pnas.org
In the mammalian pancreas, the endocrine cell types of the islets of Langerhans, including
the α-, β-, δ-, and pancreatic polypeptide cells as well as the exocrine cells, derive from …

Enhancer signatures stratify and predict outcomes of non-functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

P Cejas, Y Drier, KMA Dreijerink, LAA Brosens… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Most pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) do not produce excess hormones and are
therefore considered 'non-functional',–. As clinical behaviors vary widely and distant …

NKX6. 1 transcription factor: a crucial regulator of pancreatic β cell development, identity, and proliferation

II Aigha, EM Abdelalim - Stem cell research & therapy, 2020 - Springer
Understanding the biology underlying the mechanisms and pathways regulating pancreatic
β cell development is necessary to understand the pathology of diabetes mellitus (DM) …

Development of the human pancreas from foregut to endocrine commitment

RE Jennings, AA Berry, R Kirkwood-Wilson… - Diabetes, 2013 - diabetesjournals.org
Knowledge of human pancreas development underpins our interpretation and exploitation
of human pluripotent stem cell (PSC) differentiation toward a β-cell fate. However, almost no …

Control of endodermal endocrine development by Hes-1

J Jensen, EE Pedersen, P Galante, J Hald, RS Heller… - Nature …, 2000 - nature.com
Abstract Development of endocrine cells in the endoderm involves Atonal and
Achaete/Scute-related basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) proteins. These proteins also serve as …

The glucagon-like peptides

TJ Kieffer, J Francis Habener - Endocrine reviews, 1999 - academic.oup.com
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