What is a β cell? - Chapter I in the Human Islet Research Network (HIRN) review series

• Päätekijät: Klaus H. Kaestner (Tekijä), Martha Campbell-Thompson (Tekijä), Yuval Dor (Tekijä), Ronald G. Gill (Tekijä), Benjamin Glaser (Tekijä), Seung K. Kim (Tekijä), Maike Sander (Tekijä), Cherie Stabler (Tekijä), Andrew F. Stewart (Tekijä), Alvin C. Powers (Tekijä)
• Aineistotyyppi: Kirja
• Julkaistu: Elsevier, 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: The pancreatic β cell, as the sole source of the vital hormone insulin, has been under intensive study for more than a century. Given the potential of newly created insulin-producing cells as a treatment or even cure of type 1 diabetes (T1D) and possibly in severe cases of type 2 diabete...