100 years of insulin: celebrating the past, present and future of diabetes therapy

EK Sims, ALJ Carr, RA Oram, LA DiMeglio… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
The year 2021 marks the centennial of Banting and Best's landmark description of the
discovery of insulin. This discovery and insulin's rapid clinical deployment effectively …

Therapeutic opportunities for pancreatic β-cell ER stress in diabetes mellitus

J Yong, JD Johnson, P Arvan, J Han… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is characterized by the failure of insulin-secreting pancreatic β-cells (or β-
cell death) due to either autoimmunity (type 1 diabetes mellitus) or failure to compensate for …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces beta cell transdifferentiation

X Tang, S Uhl, T Zhang, D Xue, B Li, JJ Vandana… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Recent clinical data have suggested a correlation between coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) and diabetes. Here, we describe the detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral antigen in …

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 …

Endocrine role of bone in the regulation of energy metabolism

R Zhou, Q Guo, Y Xiao, Q Guo, Y Huang, C Li, X Luo - Bone research, 2021 - nature.com
Abstracts Bone mainly functions as a supportive framework for the whole body and is the
major regulator of calcium homeostasis and hematopoietic function. Recently, an increasing …

Identification of unique cell type responses in pancreatic islets to stress

MM Maestas, M Ishahak, P Augsornworawat… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Diabetes involves the death or dysfunction of pancreatic β-cells. Analysis of bulk sequencing
from human samples and studies using in vitro and in vivo models suggest that endoplasmic …

Oxidative stress leads to β-cell dysfunction through loss of β-cell identity

F Leenders, N Groen, N de Graaf, MA Engelse… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pancreatic β-cell failure is a critical event in the onset of both main types of diabetes mellitus
but underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. β-cells have low anti-oxidant capacity …

[HTML][HTML] Stress-induced β cell early senescence confers protection against type 1 diabetes

H Lee, GS Sahin, CW Chen, S Sonthalia, SM Cañas… - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
During the progression of type 1 diabetes (T1D), β cells are exposed to significant stress
and, therefore, require adaptive responses to survive. The adaptive mechanisms that can …

Pathological β-cell endoplasmic reticulum stress in type 2 diabetes: current evidence

N Shrestha, E De Franco, P Arvan… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The notion that in diabetes pancreatic β-cells express endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress
markers indicative of increased unfolded protein response (UPR) signaling is no longer in …

Delineating mouse β-cell identity during lifetime and in diabetes with a single cell atlas

K Hrovatin, A Bastidas-Ponce, M Bakhti, L Zappia… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Although multiple pancreatic islet single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets have
been generated, a consensus on pancreatic cell states in development, homeostasis and …