Table of Contents

Volume 2, Issue 2

  March/April 2010

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Review

• Electrical activity in pancreatic islet cells: The VRAC hypothesis

  Open Access Article

  Leonard Best, Peter D. Brown, Abdullah Sener and Willy J. Malaisse
  

Research Papers

• Intracranial ectopic pancreatic tissue

  Open Access Article

  R. Scott Heller, Hitoshi Tsugu, Kazuki Nabeshima and Ole D. Madsen
  

• Facilitation of β-cell K_ATP channel sulfonylurea sensitivity by a cAMP analog selective for the cAMP-regulated guanine nucleotide exchange factor Epac

  Open Access Article

  Colin A. Leech, Igor Dzhura, Oleg G. Chepurny, Frank Schwede, Hans-G. Genieser and George G. Holz
  

• Cleaved caspase-3 immunocytochemical staining for pancreatic islets and pancreatic endocrine tumors: A potential marker for biological malignancy

  Open Access Article

  Tatsuo Tomita
  

• Identification of genes selectively disallowed in the pancreatic islet

  Open Access Article

  Timothy J. Pullen, Arshad M. Khan, Geraint Barton, Sarah A. Butcher, Gao Sun and Guy A. Rutter
  

• The thyroid hormone T3 improves function and survival of rat pancreatic islets during in vitro culture

  Open Access Article

  Cecilia Verga Falzacappa, Claudia Mangialardo, Salvatore Raffa, Alessandra Mancuso, Piero Piergrossi, Giulia Moriggi, Salvatore Piro, Antonio Stigliano, Maria Rosaria Torrisi, Ercole Brunetti, Vincenzo Toscano and Silvia Misiti
  

• Role of the TLR signaling molecule TRIF in β-cell function and glucose homeostasis

  Open Access Article

  Meredith J. H. Hutton, Galina Soukhatcheva, James D. Johnson and C. Bruce Verchere
  

• Islet neogenesis from the constitutively nestin expressing human umbilical cord matrix derived mesenchymal stem cells

  Open Access Article

  Sachin S. Kadam and Ramesh R. Bhonde
  

Article Addenda

• The role of Islet-1 in the endocrine pancreas: Lessons from pancreas specific Islet-1 deficient mice

  Open Access Article

  Catherine Lee May
  

• In vivo functional heterogeneity among β-cells

  Open Access Article

  Melis Karaca
  

Commentaries

• Targeting triglyceride/fatty acid cycling in β-cells as a therapy for augmenting glucose-stimulated insulin secretion

  Open Access Article

  James Cantley and Trevor J Biden
  

• B cell therapy is β-tested: Rituximab puts a pause on β-cell destruction

  Open Access Article

  Raphael Clynes