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Journal Article
A synopsis of factors regulating beta cell development and beta cell mass
2016
Overview
The insulin-secreting beta cells in the endocrine pancreas regulate blood glucose levels, and loss of functional beta cells leads to insulin deficiency, hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) and diabetes mellitus. Current treatment strategies for type-1 (autoimmune) diabetes are islet transplantation, which has significant risks and limitations, or normalization of blood glucose with insulin injections, which is clearly not ideal. The type-1 patients can lack insulin counter-regulatory mechanism; therefore, hypoglycemia is a potential risk. Hence, a cell-based therapy offers a better alternative for the treatment of diabetes. Past research was focused on attempting to generate replacement beta cells from stem cells; however, recently there has been an increasing interest in identifying mechanisms that will lead to the conversion of pre-existing differentiated endocrine cells into beta cells. The goal of this review is to provide an overview of several of the key factors that regulate new beta cell formation (neogenesis) and beta cell proliferation.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing,Springer Nature B.V
Subject
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Blood
/ Cells
/ Glucose
/ Humans
/ Insulin
/ Insulin-Secreting Cells - cytology
/ Insulin-Secreting Cells - metabolism
/ Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins - metabolism
/ Pancreas
/ Pancreatic islet transplantation
/ patients
/ Regulatory mechanisms (biology)
/ Review
/ risk
