ON THE INNER BACK COVER: NRK 49F (with endogenous Septin2‐GFP) cell was expanded and stained with antibodies against GFP, Septin7 Septin2 (cyan), alpha/beta‐tubulin (magenta). Credit: Nadja Hümpfer Helge Ewers, Freie Universität Berlin image

PURPOSE Transplantation of pancreatic islets to Type 1 diabetes patients is hampered by inflammatory reactions at the transplantation site leading to dysfunction and death of insulin producing beta-cells. Recently we have shown that co-transplantation of neural crest stem cells (NCSCs) together with the islet cells improves transplantation outcome. The aim of the present investigation was to de...

martindale proved that under some conditions every multiplicative isomorphism between two rings is additive. in this paper, we extend this theorem to a larger class of mappings and conclude that every multiplicative $(alpha, beta)-$derivation is additive.

AIMS/HYPOTHESIS Pancreatic beta-cell mass expands through adulthood under certain conditions. The related molecular mechanisms are elusive. This study was designed to determine whether surviving (also known as Birc5), which is transiently expressed perinatally in islets, was required for beta-cell mass expansion in the pancreatic duct-ligated mouse model. METHODS Mice with beta cell-specific ...

OBJECTIVE Regeneration of the insulin-secreting beta-cells is a fundamental research goal that could benefit patients with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. beta-Cell proliferation can be acutely stimulated by a variety of stimuli in young rodents. However, it is unknown whether this adaptive beta-cell regeneration capacity is retained into old age. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We assessed ada...

Transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) switches from an inhibitor of tumor cell growth to a stimulator of growth and invasion during human colon carcinoma progression. We originally observed that metastatic colon carcinoma cells in primary culture responded to TGF-beta 1 by proliferation, whereas moderate to well-differentiated primary site colon carcinomas were growth inhibited by TGF-...

Alzheimer’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disease. Microglia induces oxidative stress in the brain for engulfing bacteria and viruses. The accumulating data indicate that apoptosis are two main actors induction of microglia activation-induced Disease. Oxidative one many triggers activate transient receptor potential melastatin 2 (TRPM2) channel. Glutathione (GSH) cytosolic antioxidant m...

Type 2 diabetes is characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from insulin resistance in the setting of inadequate beta-cell compensation. Currently available therapeutic agents lower blood glucose through multiple mechanisms but do not directly reverse the decline in beta-cell mass. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, exemplified by Exenatide (exendin-4), not only acutely lower bl...

OBJECTIVE Obesity is a known risk factor for type 2 diabetes. However, most obese individuals do not develop diabetes because they adapt to insulin resistance by increasing beta-cell mass and insulin secretion. Islet pathology in type 2 diabetes is characterized by beta-cell loss, islet amyloid derived from islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), and increased beta-cell apoptosis characterized by end...

Motivated by problems of hyperbolic stochastic geometry we introduce and study the class beta-star polytopes. A polytope is defined as convex hull an inhomogeneous Poisson processes on complement unit ball in Rd with density proportional to (‖x‖2−1)−β, where ‖x‖>1 β>d/2. Explicit formulas for various geometric combinatorial functionals associated polytopes are provided, including expected numbe...