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COUP-TFII Controls Mouse Pancreatic beta-Cell Mass through GLP-1-beta-Catenin Signaling Pathways

Background: The control of the functional pancreatic beta-cell mass serves the key homeostatic function of releasing the right amount of insulin to keep blood sugar in the normal range. It is not fully understood though how beta-cell mass is determined. ...

2012

GLUT2-/- mice are resistant to age-induced accumulation of fat in the liver – an in vivo MRS study

Rolf Gruetter, Hongxia Lei, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares

Introduction: Whole-body energy balance is strongly dependent on the hepatic handling of metabolic fuels, which is affected by the hepatic lipid content (HLC). With in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) HLC can be measured non-invasively an ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Planar Cell Polarity Controls Pancreatic Beta Cell Differentiation and Glucose Homeostasis

Anne Grapin-Botton, Mathieu Gouzi, Cédric Cortijo

Planar cell polarity (PCP) refers to the collective orientation of cells within the epithelial plane. We show that progenitor cells forming the ducts of the embryonic pancreas express PCP proteins and exhibit an active PCP pathway. Planar polarity proteins ...

Cell Press2012

Diabetes imaging — quantitative assessment of islets of Langerhans distribution in murine pancreas using extended-focus optical coherence microscopy

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Theo Lasser, Anthony Christopher Davison, Anne Grapin-Botton, Martin Villiger, Arno Pino Bouwens, Corinne Berclaz, Joan Goulley, Erica Martin-Williams

Diabetes is characterized by hyperglycemia that can result from the loss of pancreatic insulin secreting β-cells in the islets of Langerhans. We analyzed ex vivo the entire gastric and duodenal lobes of a murine pancreas using extended-focus Optical Cohere ...

2012

Two mutations in human BICC1 resulting in Wnt pathway hyperactivity associated with cystic renal dysplasia

Daniel Constam, Marine Marie Kraus, Anne Grapin-Botton

Bicaudal C homologue 1 (Bicc1) knockout in mice causes polycystic kidney disease and pancreas development defects, including a reduction in insulin-producing β-cells and ensuing diabetes. We therefore screened 137 patients with renal abnormalities or assoc ...

2011

Mitochondrial Matrix Calcium Is an Activating Signal for Hormone Secretion

Kristina Schoonjans, Andreas Wiederkehr, Chikage Mataki

Mitochondrial Ca2+ signals have been proposed to accelerate oxidative metabolism and ATP production to match Ca2+-activated energy-consuming processes. Efforts to understand the signaling role of mitochondrial Ca2+ have been hampered by the inability to ma ...

Elsevier2011

Definition of in Vitro Microenvironments to Characterize and Control Pancreatic Progenitor Expansion and Differentiation

Chiara Greggio

The pancreas plays a central role in metabolism. The exocrine pancreas, composed of ductal and acinar cells, secretes and delivers digestive enzymes into the duodenum where they contribute to food digestion. The endocrine pancreas, constituted by the islet ...

EPFL2011

Formation of the Long Range Dpp Morphogen Gradient

Sascha Dalessi, Markus Affolter

The TGF-β homolog Decapentaplegic (Dpp) acts as a secreted morphogen in the Drosophila wing disc, and spreads through the target tissue in order to form a long range concentration gradient. Despite extensive studies, the mechanism by which the Dpp gradient ...

2011

Flexible antibodies with nonprotein hinges

Florian Maria Wurm

There is a significant need for antibodies that can bind targets with greater affinity. Here we describe a. novel strategy employing chemical semisynthesis to produce symmetroadhesins: antibody-like molecules having nonprotein hinge regions that are more f ...

2011

Tissue Transglutaminase-mediated Glutamine Deamidation of beta-Amyloid Peptide Increases Peptide Solubility, Whereas Enzymatic Cross-linking and Peptide Fragmentation May Serve as Molecular Triggers for Rapid Peptide Aggregation

Horst Vogel, Yury Tsybin, Diego Chiappe, Marc Moniatte, Adrian Schmid, Enrico Condemi

Tissue transglutaminase (TGase) has been implicated in a number of cellular processes and disease states, where the enzymatic actions of TGase may serve in both, cell survival and apoptosis. To date, the precise functional properties of TGase in cell survi ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2011

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