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Abstract
Replacing missing insulin-producing beta cells to treat diabetes is a major challenge for regenerative medicine. A better understanding of beta-cell embryogenesis and regeneration in adult life is needed to devise means to derive these specialized cells in sufficiently large numbers from stem or precursor cells. It is also critical to ensure that any surrogate or regenerated beta cells have perfectly regulated insulin production, which is essential for physiological glucose homeostasis.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15516994 DOI: 10.1038/ncb1104-1021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Cell Biol ISSN: 1465-7392 Impact factor: 28.824