Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23700217›Full record

ReviewJournal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany)2013

Imaging beta-cell mass and function in situ and in vivo.

Lu Yang, Wei Ji, Yanhong Xue, Liangyi Chen

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Review in Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Lu YangThe State Key Laboratory of Biomembrane and Membrane Biotechnology, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University and National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China. yanglu130@gmail.com
Wei Ji
Yanhong Xue
Liangyi Chen
Peking University · CNChinese Academy of Sciences · CNInstitute of Biophysics · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS) from pancreatic beta-cells is critical to the maintenance of blood glucose homeostasis in animals. Both decrease in pancreatic beta-cell mass and defects in beta-cell function contribute to the onset of diabetes, although the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Molecular imaging techniques can help beta-cell study in a number of ways. High-resolution fluorescence imaging techniques provide novel insights into the fundamental mechanisms underlying GSIS in isolated beta-cells or in situ in pancreatic islets, and dynamic changes of beta-cell mass and function can be noninvasively monitored in vivo by imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography and single-photon emission computed tomography. All these techniques will contribute to the better understanding of the progression of diabetes and the search for the optimized therapeutic measures that reverse deficits in beta-cell mass and function.

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Insulin-Secreting CellsAnimalsCell SizeHumansMolecular Imaging

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PMID23700217
OpenAlexW2169815618

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