Modelling the endocrine pancreas in health and disease

M Bakhti, A Böttcher, H Lickert - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2019 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is a multifactorial disease affecting increasing numbers of patients
worldwide. Progression to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is characterized by the loss …

β-Cell maturation and identity in health and disease

C Salinno, P Cota, A Bastidas-Ponce… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The exponential increase of patients with diabetes mellitus urges for novel therapeutic
strategies to reduce the socioeconomic burden of this disease. The loss or dysfunction of …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering early human pancreas development at the single-cell level

Z Ma, X Zhang, W Zhong, H Yi, X Chen, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding pancreas development can provide clues for better treatments of pancreatic
diseases. However, the molecular heterogeneity and developmental trajectory of the early …

A 3D system to model human pancreas development and its reference single-cell transcriptome atlas identify signaling pathways required for progenitor expansion

CA Gonçalves, M Larsen, S Jung, J Stratmann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Human organogenesis remains relatively unexplored for ethical and practical reasons.
Here, we report the establishment of a single-cell transcriptome atlas of the human fetal …

CRISPR screening uncovers a central requirement for HHEX in pancreatic lineage commitment and plasticity restriction

D Yang, H Cho, Z Tayyebi, A Shukla, R Luo… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
The pancreas and liver arise from a common pool of progenitors. However, the underlying
mechanisms that drive their lineage diversification from the foregut endoderm are not fully …

Understanding human fetal pancreas development using subpopulation sorting, RNA sequencing and single-cell profiling

C Ramond, BS Beydag-Tasöz, A Azad… - …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
To decipher the populations of cells present in the human fetal pancreas and their lineage
relationships, we developed strategies to isolate pancreatic progenitors, endocrine …

TGF-β modulates cell fate in human ES cell-derived foregut endoderm by inhibiting Wnt and BMP signaling

NS Funa, HK Mjoseng, KH de Lichtenberg, S Raineri… - Stem Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Genetic differences between pluripotent stem cell lines cause variable activity of
extracellular signaling pathways, limiting reproducibility of directed differentiation protocols …

Concise review: human pluripotent stem cells for the modeling of pancreatic β-cell pathology

D Balboa, J Saarimäki-Vire, T Otonkoski - Stem Cells, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Pancreatic β-cells are the only source of insulin. Disturbances in β-cell development or
function may thus result in insulin deficiency or excess, presenting as hyper-or …

Expansion of ventral foregut is linked to changes in the enhancer landscape for organ-specific differentiation

YF Wong, Y Kumar, M Proks, JAR Herrera… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell proliferation is fundamental for almost all stages of development and differentiation that
require an increase in cell number. Although cell cycle phase has been associated with …

Analysis of differentiation protocols defines a common pancreatic progenitor molecular signature and guides refinement of endocrine differentiation

A Wesolowska-Andersen, RR Jensen, MP Alcántara… - Stem Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
Several distinct differentiation protocols for deriving pancreatic progenitors (PPs) from
human pluripotent stem cells have been described, but it remains to be shown how similar …