pancreatic cells

[Nature Reviews Endocrinology] The focus of this Review is the description of how endocrine cell heterogeneity affects the regulation of hormone secretion within the islets of Langerhans.

[Scientific Reports] Copine 3 (CPNE3) is a calcium-dependent phospholipid-binding protein that has been found to play an essential role in cancer progression and stages. RNA sequencing and microarray data revealed that CPNE3 was highly expressed in human islets compared to other CPNE genes.

[Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America] Scientists comprehensively examined preproinsulin specificity of CD8 T cells obtained from pancreatic islets of organ donors with and without type 1 diabetes (T1D) and identified epitopes throughout the entire preproinsulin protein and defective ribosomal products derived from preproinsulin messenger RNA.

[Cell Reports] Researchers used marker-independent stochastic clonal labeling, combined with quantitative modeling of tumor expansion, to uncover pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma tissue growth dynamics.

[Science Advances] The authors quantified preproinsulin-specific CD8+ T cells within different areas of the human pancreas from nondiabetic controls, autoantibody-positive donors, and donors with type 1 diabetes to investigate their role in diabetes development.

[Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy] MK8722 is a potent and systemic pan-AMPK activator. It is an effective, direct, allosteric activator of AMPK complex in many mammals. Scientists investigated the anti-pancreatic cancer cells effects of MK8722 on two different human pancreatic cancer cell lines.