Acceleration of Functional Maturation and Differentiation of Neonatal Porcine Islet Cell Monolayers Shortly In Vitro Cocultured with Microencapsulated Sertoli Cells

Table 1

Cell type markers analyzed by immunocytochemistry on NPI cell monolayers cultured alone or with ESC.

Name	Abbreviation	Cell localization	Cell type marker
Stem cell factor receptor	c-kit/SCFR	transmembrane	hematopoietic stem cell marker; growth and differentiation of $\beta$-cell sub-populations marker
Cytokeratin 7	Ck7	cytoplasmatic	ductal cell marker
Insulin	Ins	cytoplasmatic	$\beta$-cell marker
Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox gene 1 protein	PDX-1	Nuclear and cytoplasmatic	$\beta$-cell marker