Endocrine-committed progenitor cells retain their differentiation potential in the absence of neurogenin-3 expression.

ABSTRACT: Neurogenin-3 (ngn-3) expression is critical for endocrine development in the developing pancreas. We found that when ngn-3 was inhibited in an E11.5 pancreas, using either morpholino antisense or siRNA, it led to a significant decrease in endocrine differentiation after seven days in culture. Endocrine differentiation was rescued when ngn-3 inhibition was withdrawn after three days of culture, suggesting that the embryonic pancreas retains progenitor cells with the ability to differentiate into endocrine cell types when ngn-3 expression recurs. To determine whether the rescue phenomenon observed after withdrawing ngn-3 antisense treatment was the result of the original endocrine-committed cells reinitiating endocrine differentiation, or was instead due to new recruitment of later progenito

SUBMITTER: Prasadan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4878388 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature