New Sources of Pancreatic Beta Cells
  - Nature Biotechnology 23, 857 - 861 (2005)

The Endless Possibilities of Beta Cell Regeneration
  - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation CountDown Magazine

Researchers Make New Beta Cells Grow from Pancreatic Tissue
  - Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Progress Report

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Brand et al. "Pharmacological Treatment of Chronic Diabetes by Stimulating Pancreatic beta-Cell Regeneration with Systemic Co-Administration of EGF and Gastrin"
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Rooman et al. "Combined Gastrin and Epidermal Growth Factor Treatment Induces Islet Regeneration and restores Normoglycaemia in C57B16/J Mice Treated with Alloxan" Rooman I et al.;
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Wang TC. et al. "Pancreatic Gastrin Stimulates Islet Differentiation of Transforming Growth Factor a-Induced ductular Precursor Cells"
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Rooman I. et al. "Gastrin Stimulates beta-Cell Neogenesis and Increase Islet Mass from Transdifferentiated but not from Normal Exocrine Pancreas Tissue"
  - Diabetes (March 2002) 51:686-690

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