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ArticleIslets2016

Ancestral genomic duplication of the insulin gene in tilapia: An analysis of possible implications for clinical islet xenotransplantation using donor islets from transgenic tilapia expressing a humanized insulin gene.

Olga Hrytsenko, Bill Pohajdak, James R Wright

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Article in Islets, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Olga Hrytsenkoa Biology Department , Dalhousie University, Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.
Bill Pohajdaka Biology Department , Dalhousie University, Halifax , Nova Scotia , Canada.
James R Wrightb Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine/Calgary Laboratory Services , University of Calgary , Calgary , AB , Canada.
Dalhousie University · CACalgary Laboratory Services · CA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Tilapia, a teleost fish, have multiple large anatomically discrete islets which are easy to harvest, and when transplanted into diabetic murine recipients, provide normoglycemia and mammalian-like glucose tolerance profiles. Tilapia insulin differs structurally from human insulin which could preclude their use as islet donors for xenotransplantation. Therefore, we produced transgenic tilapia with islets expressing a humanized insulin gene. It is now known that fish genomes may possess an ancestral duplication and so tilapia may have a second insulin gene. Therefore, we cloned, sequenced, and characterized the tilapia insulin 2 transcript and found that its expression is negligible in islets, is not islet-specific, and would not likely need to be silenced in our transgenic fish.

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Transplantation, HeterologousAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalGlucose Tolerance TestHumansInsulinIslets of Langerhans TransplantationMicePolymerase Chain ReactionTilapiaInsulinBrockmann bodiesdiabetesgenomic duplicationinsulin geneisletsteleost fishtilapiatransgenic fishxenotransplantation

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PMID27222321
PMCPMC4987019
OpenAlexW2402521871

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