Critical role for adenosine receptor A2a in β-cell proliferation

•Adenosine regulates homeostatic control of β-cell proliferation.•Adenosine signaling via A2a regulates glucose control and β-cell proliferation in pregnancy.•Pharmacological agonism of specifically A2a induces proliferation of β cells.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schulz, Nadja, Liu, Ka-Cheuk, Charbord, Jérémie, Mattsson, Charlotte L., Tao, Lingjie, Tworus, Dominika, Andersson, Olov
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5081418/