Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center
The UT Southwestern research team of (from left) Dr. Denise Marciano, Dr. Caitlin Braitsch, Dr. Ordine Cleaver, and Berfin Azizoglu has shown that endocrine development is promoted specifically by epithelial tubes, which exist only transiently in the embryonic pancreas. This endocrine differentiation microenvironment could eventually propel development of novel treatments for diabetes.