Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Endocrine lineage biases arise in temporally distinct endocrine progenitors during pancreatic morphogenesis

  • Marissa A. Scavuzzo,
  • Matthew C. Hill,
  • Jolanta Chmielowiec,
  • Diane Yang,
  • Jessica Teaw,
  • Kuanwei Sheng,
  • Yuelin Kong,
  • Maria Bettini,
  • Chenghang Zong,
  • James F. Martin,
  • Malgorzata Borowiak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05740-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Endocrine progenitors form early in pancreatic development but the diversity of this cell population is unclear. Here, the authors use single cell RNA sequencing of the mouse pancreas at e14.5 and e16.5 to show that endocrine progenitors are temporally distinct and those formed later are more likely to become beta cells