Volume 27, No 3, Mar 2017

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 27 Issue 3, March 2017: 309-310

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

GABA signaling: a route to new pancreatic β cells in type 1 diabetes?

Guy A Rutter¹

¹Cell Biology and Functional Genomics, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, UK Correspondence: Guy A Rutter,(G.rutter@imperial.ac.uk)

An ability to convert between pancreatic islet cell types may provide a new approach to replace insulin-secreting β cells destroyed by autoimmune attack in Type 1 diabetes. Two papers, which have recently appeared in Cell, describe how this might be achieved.

10.1038/cr.2017.20

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