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Pancreatic duodenal homeobox-1, PDX-1, a major regulator of beta cell identity and function.
Diabetologia - 1 Oct 2001
McKinnon C M, Docherty K
Abstract excerpt
Pancreatic duodenal homeobox -1 is a transcription factor that is expressed in beta and delta cells of the islets of Langerhans and in dispersed endocrine cells of the duodenum. It is involved in regulating the expression of a number of key beta-cell genes as well as somatostatin. It also plays a pivotal part in the development of the pancreas and islet cell ontogeny. Thus homozygous disruption of the gene in...
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