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Structural and Functional Imaging of Pancreatic Islets using Optical Coherence Microscopy

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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 ...

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