[HTML][HTML] Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor co-agonists for treating metabolic disease

LL Baggio, DJ Drucker - Molecular metabolism, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists are approved for the
treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity and elicit robust improvements in glycemic control …

Engineering islets from stem cells for advanced therapies of diabetes

J Siehler, AK Blöchinger, M Meier… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that affects more than 460 million people
worldwide. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune destruction of β-cells, whereas …

SARS-CoV-2 infects and replicates in cells of the human endocrine and exocrine pancreas

JA Müller, R Groß, C Conzelmann, J Krüger… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Infection-related diabetes can arise as a result of virus-associated β-cell destruction. Clinical
data suggest that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

[PDF][PDF] Single-cell transcriptome profiling reveals β cell maturation in stem cell-derived islets after transplantation

P Augsornworawat, KG Maxwell, L Velazco-Cruz… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells differentiated to insulin-secreting β cells (SC-β cells) in islet
organoids could provide an unlimited cell source for diabetes cell replacement therapy …

[PDF][PDF] Epigenetic dosage identifies two major and functionally distinct β cell subtypes

E Dror, L Fagnocchi, V Wegert, S Apostle, B Grimaldi… - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
The mechanisms that specify and stabilize cell subtypes remain poorly understood. Here,
we identify two major subtypes of pancreatic β cells based on histone mark heterogeneity (β …

Biologically informed deep learning to query gene programs in single-cell atlases

M Lotfollahi, S Rybakov, K Hrovatin… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The increasing availability of large-scale single-cell atlases has enabled the detailed
description of cell states. In parallel, advances in deep learning allow rapid analysis of newly …

Gut hormone-based pharmacology: novel formulations and future possibilities for metabolic disease therapy

M Tschöp, R Nogueiras, B Ahrén - Diabetologia, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are established pharmaceutical
therapies for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity. They mimic the action of GLP-1 to …

Predicting cellular responses to complex perturbations in high‐throughput screens

M Lotfollahi, A Klimovskaia Susmelj… - Molecular systems …, 2023 - embopress.org
Recent advances in multiplexed single‐cell transcriptomics experiments facilitate the high‐
throughput study of drug and genetic perturbations. However, an exhaustive exploration of …

Single-nucleus RNA sequencing of human pancreatic islets identifies novel gene sets and distinguishes β-cell subpopulations with dynamic transcriptome profiles

RB Kang, Y Li, C Rosselot, T Zhang, M Siddiq… - Genome Medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides valuable insights into
human islet cell types and their corresponding stable gene expression profiles. However …

A beta cell subset with enhanced insulin secretion and glucose metabolism is reduced in type 2 diabetes

A Rubio-Navarro, N Gómez-Banoy, L Stoll… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The pancreatic islets are composed of discrete hormone-producing cells that orchestrate
systemic glucose homeostasis. Here we identify subsets of beta cells using a single-cell …