Neonatal pancreatic pericytes support β-cell proliferation

• Main Authors: Alona Epshtein (Author), Eleonor Rachi (Author), Lina Sakhneny (Author), Shani Mizrachi (Author), Daria Baer (Author), Limor Landsman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: The maintenance and expansion of β-cell mass rely on their proliferation, which reaches its peak in the neonatal stage. β-cell proliferation was found to rely on cells of the islet microenvironment. We hypothesized that pericytes, which are components of the islet vasculature, support neo...