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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Hung Ping Shih
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-28670 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Development (Cambridge, England) 20120606 14
In the pancreas, Notch signaling is thought to prevent cell differentiation, thereby maintaining progenitors in an undifferentiated state. Here, we show that Notch renders progenitors competent to differentiate into ductal and endocrine cells by inducing activators of cell differentiation. Notch signaling promotes the expression of Sox9, which cell-autonomously activates the pro-endocrine gene Ngn3. However, at high Notch activity endocrine differentiation is blocked, as Notch also induces expre ...[more]