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Islet Cell Growth Factors


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Rohit N. Kulkarni
Joslin Diabetes Center
and
Harvard Medical School

This book will be published in February of 2009

List price: TBA



ISBN: TBA
Pub date: 2009-02-01


Table of contents

Planned List of Topics


The role(s) of insulin/IGF-I on islet cell growth
Chong Wee Liew, Terumasa Okada and Rohit N. Kulkarni

Role of Pdx-1 in beta cell growth
Doris Stoffers and J. Nina Ham

Role of replication in beta cell growth
Yuval Dor

Roles of hepatocyte-growth factor/Scatter factor in beta cell growth
Adolfo Garcia-Ocana

Role of FoxO proteins in ductal/beta cell growth
Tadahiro Kitamura and Domenico Accili

Roles of placental lactogen and PThRP in beta cell growth
Rupangi Vasavada

Role of Akt in beta cell growth
Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi

Cell cycle control in islet beta cells
Anil Bhushan