Although β cells are clearly derived from progenitor cells during embryonic development, these pancreatic ... that β-cell proliferation, rather than stem cell differentiation, is the dominant ...

expression and endocrine differentiation from approximately 8 weeks, before which Nirenberg and Kim homeobox 2.2 (NKX2.2) was not observed in the pancreatic progenitor cell population. In addition ...

Culture systems that control cell assembly offer this possibility since cell-cell contact has been shown to influence cell survival, proliferation, and differentiation. For example, isolated neural ...