Embryonic endocrine pancreas and mature beta cells acquire alpha and PP cell phenotypes upon Arx misexpression.

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Aristaless-related homeobox (Arx) was recently demonstrated to be involved in pancreatic alpha cell fate specification while simultaneously repressing the beta and delta cell lineages. To establish whether Arx is not only necessary, but also sufficient to instruct the alpha cell fate in endocrine progenitors, we used a gain-of-function approach to generate mice conditionally misexpressing this factor. Mice with...

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