Developmental Cell, June 27th, 2013
Adult duct-lining cells can reprogram into β-like cells able to counter repeated cycles of toxin-induced Diabetes
Keith Al-Hasani1,2,3,4,#, Anja Pfeifer1,2,3,#, Monica Courtney1,2,,3,#, Nouha Ben-Othman1,2,3,#, Elisabet Gjernes1,2,3, Andhira Vieira1,2,3, Noémie Druelle1,2,3, Fabio Avolio1,2,3, Philippe Ravassard5, Gunter Leuckx6, Sandra Lacas-Gervais7, Damien Ambrosetti8, Emmanuel Benizri9, Jacob Hecksher-Sorensen10, Pierre Gounon7, Jorge Ferrer11, Gerard Gradwohl12, Harry Heimberg6, Ahmed Mansouri3,13,14,*, and Patrick Collombat1,2,3,15,*
1 Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, FR-06108 Nice, France
2 Inserm U1091, IBV, Diabetes Genetics Team, FR-06108 Nice, France
3 JDRF, 26 Broadway, NY-10004, USA
4 Present address: Epigenetics in Human Health and Disease Laboratory, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, The Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia.
5 Biotechnology and Biotherapy Laboratory, Centre de Recherche de l’Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, CNRS UMR 7225; INSERM UMRS 975; University Pierre et Marie Curie, Hôpital Pitié Salpétrière, FR-75013 Paris, France
6 Diabetes Research Center, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 103, B-1090 Brussel, Belgium
7 Centre Commun de Microscopie, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, FR-06108 Nice, France
8 Laboratoire central d'Anatomie Pathologique, CHU de Nice, FR-06100 Nice, France
9 Chirurgie Générale et Cancérologie Digestive, CHU de Nice, FR-06100 Nice, France
10 Hagedorn Research Institute, Department of Developmental Biology, Niels Steensensvej 6, DK-2820 Gentofte, Denmark
11 Endocrinology, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, SP-08036 Barcelona, Spain
12 Inserm U964/CNRS UMR 7104/University of Strasbourg, FR-67404 Illkirch, France
13 Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department of Molecular Cell 3iology, Am Fassberg, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
14 Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Göttingen, Robert-Koch Strasse 40, D-37075 Göttingen, Germany
15 Genome and Stem Cell Center, GENKOK, Erciyes University, 38039, Kayseri,Turkey
# Authors contributed equally to this work