71. (Journal Article): Stem cells: cell fusion causes confusion.

Wurmser AE, Gage FH
 
ABSTRACT: 'Transdifferentiation' is a poorly understood process invoked to explain how tissue-specific adult stem cells can generate cells of other tissues. New results challenge its existen...

72. (Journal Article): Cell fusion-independent differentiation of neural stem cells to the endothelial lineage.

Wurmser AE, Nakashima K, Summers RG, Toni N, D'Amour KA, Lie DC, Gage FH
 
ABSTRACT: Somatic stem cells have been claimed to possess an unexpectedly broad differentiation potential (referred to here as plasticity) that could be induced by exposing stem cells to the...

73. (Journal Article): Adult pancreatic beta-cells are formed by self-duplication rather than stem-cell differentiation.

Dor Y, Brown J, Martinez OI, Melton DA
 
ABSTRACT: How tissues generate and maintain the correct number of cells is a fundamental problem in biology. In principle, tissue turnover can occur by the differentiation of stem cells, as ...

74. (Journal Article): Beta-cell differentiation from nonendocrine epithelial cells of the adult human pancreas

Hao E, Tyrberg B, Itkin-Ansari P, Lakey JR, Geron I, Monosov EZ, Barcova M, Mercola M, Levine F
 
ABSTRACT: The nature and even existence of adult pancreatic endocrine stem or progenitor cells is a subject of controversy in the field of beta-cell replacement for diabetes. One place to se...

75. (Journal Article): Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic

Zimmet P, Alberti KG, Shaw J
 
ABSTRACT: Changes in human behaviour and lifestyle over the last century have resulted in a dramatic increase in the incidence of diabetes worldwide. The epidemic is chiefly of type 2 diabet...

76. (Journal Article): Attenuation of FGF signaling in mouse beta-cells leads to diabetes.

Hart AW, Baeza N, Apelqvist A, Edlund H
 
ABSTRACT: Fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signalling has been implicated in patterning, proliferation and cell differentiation in many organs, including the developing pancreas. Here we show ...