Table of Contents

Volume 4, Issue 1

  January/February 2012

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REVIEWS

Overcoming the spatial barriers of the stimulus secretion cascade in pancreatic β-cells.

Peter R. Huypens, Mei Huang and Jamie W. Joseph


Mathematical models of pancreatic islet size distributions

Junghyo Jo, Manami Hara, Ulf Ahlgren, Robert Sorenson and Vipul Periwal





SHORT REPORT

GPR54 peptide agonists stimulate insulin secretion from murine, porcine and human islets

James E. Bowe, Victoria L. Foot, Stephanie A. Amiel, Gao Cai Huang, Morgan Lamb, Jonathan Lakey, Peter M. Jones and Shanta J. Persaud





RESEARCH PAPERS

Nerve growth factor is associated with islet graft failure following intraportal transplantation

Yukihiko Saito, Nathaniel K. Chan, Naoaki Sakata and Eba Hathout


Preservation of pancreatic islets in cold UW solution before transplantation

Show Ishii, Takuro Saito, Kazuya Ise, Michitoshi Yamashita, Yoshihiro Sato, Takaharu Saito, Manabu Tsukada, Ikuro Oshibe, Akira Kenjo, Takashi Kimura, Takayuki Anazawa, Shigeya Suzuki and Mitsukazu Gotoh


Insulin-secreting INS-1E cells express functional TRPV1 channels

Amanda Jabin Fågelskiöld, Kristina Kannisto, Anna Boström, Banina Hadrovic, Cecilia Farre, Mohamed Eweida, Kenneth Wester and Md. Shahidul Islam





ARTICLE ADDENDUM

Development of type 2 diabetes caused by a deficiency of a tRNAlys modification

Fan-Yan Wei and Kazuhito Tomizawa