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Abstract
Understanding the origins of insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas could lead to new treatments for diabetes. Collombat et al. (2009) now show that in response to injury, a population of pancreatic progenitor cells can give rise to glucagon-expressing alpha cells that then transdifferentiate into beta cells.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID： 19665963 DOI： 10.1016/j.cell.2009.07.022
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN： 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582