FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE PRESENTS

THE SPECIAL ISSUE


RECENT PROGRESS IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION OF ISLET BETA CELLS

Managing Editor: Myung-Shik Lee

  

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Pancreatic acinar-to-beta cell transdifferentiation in vitro
Kohtaro Minami, Susumu Seino,

[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 5824-5837, May 1, 2008]

Loss of beta-cells with fibrotic islet destruction in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Ji-Won Kim, Seung-Hyun Ko, Jae-Hyoung Cho, Chenglin Sun, Oak-kee Hong, Seung-Hwan Lee, Ji-Hyun Kim, Kang-Woo Lee, Hyuk-Sang Kwon, Jung-Min Lee, Ki-Ho Song, Ho-Young Son, Kun-Ho Yoon
[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 6022-6033, May 1, 2008]

Genetic manipulation of islet cells in autoimmune diabetes: from bench to bedside
Yi-Ping Chuang, Chi-Hong Chu, Huey-Kang Sytwu

[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 6155-6169, May 1, 2008]

Regeneration of pancreatic beta cells
Hee-Sook Jun

[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 6170-6182, May 1, 2008]

PDX-1 functions as a master factor in the pancreas
Hideaki Kaneto, Taka-aki Matsuoka, Takeshi Miyatsuka, Dan Kawamori, Naoto Katakami, Yoshimitsu Yamasaki, Munehide Matsuhisa
[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 6406-6420, May 1, 2008]

Systems of pancreatic beta-cells and glucose regulation
Hyuk Kang, Kyungreem Han, Junghyo Jo, Jinwoong Kim, Moo Young Choi

[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 6421-6431, May 1, 2008]

Pancreas islets in metabolic signaling - focus on the beta-cell
Jakob Suckale, Michele Solimena

[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 7156-7171, May 1, 2008]

Interferon signalling in pancreatic beta cells
Helen E Thomas, Kate L Graham, Eveline Angstetra, Mark D McKenzie, Nadine L Dudek, Thomas W Kay

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 644-656, January 1, 2009]

Recent progress in research on beta-cell apoptosis by cytokines
Kyoung-Ah Kim, Myung-Shik Lee

[Frontiers in Bioscience 14, 657-664, January 1, 2009]