ArticleNature communications2024
Structure, interaction and nervous connectivity of beta cell primary cilia.
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- Islet ultrastructure: past achievements and future directions.Diabetologia · 2026Review
- Compartmentalized Nutrient and Hormone Sensing in β-Cells: the Role of Primary Cilia.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Primary Cilia as Integrative Hubs of Metabolic Signaling in Type 2 Diabetes: Inter-Organ Evidence From Central, Peripheral, and Pancreatic Islet Tissues.Journal of cellular physiology · 2026Review
- A goat-derived gamma-tubulin antibody for triple-channel imaging of primary cilia.BMC molecular and cell biology · 2026Article
- Axonemal Dynein Visualized in Primary Cilia via Expansion Microscopy.Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Stereotypical interciliary contacts in abioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A stereotyped glial attachment determines the morphology and function of neuronal cilia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Glucagon secretion by pancreatic alpha-cells requires an intact tubulin-cytoskeleton-primary cilium axis.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Explainable AI-based analysis of human pancreas sections identifies traits of type 2 diabetes.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Advances in high-resolution imaging of centrioles and cilia.Journal of cell science · 2025Review
- Design principles of ciliary signaling.Journal of cell science · 2025Review
- The primary cilium as a multifunctional organelle: emerging roles and unanswered questions.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2025Review
- Cilia at the crossroad: convergence of regulatory mechanisms to govern cilia dynamics during cell signaling and the cell cycle.Cell & bioscience · 2025Review
- Primary cilia and cancer: a tale of many faces.Oncogene · 2025Review
- Systematic Comparison of Commercial Uranyl-Alternative Stains for Negative- and Positive-Staining Transmission Electron Microscopy of Organic Specimens.Advanced healthcare materials · 2025Article
- Somatostatin triggers local cAMP and CaThe EMBO journal · 2025Article
- Intravital imaging reveals glucose-dependent cilia movement in pancreatic islets in vivo.Metabolism: clinical and experimental · 2025Article
- Paracrine Signaling by Pancreatic Islet Cilia.Current opinion in endocrine and metabolic research · 2024Article
- Keeping pace: the primary cilium as the conducting baton of the islet.Diabetologia · 2024Review
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Abstract
Primary cilia are sensory organelles present in many cell types, partaking in various signaling processes. Primary cilia of pancreatic beta cells play pivotal roles in paracrine signaling and their dysfunction is linked to diabetes. Yet, the structural basis for their functions is unclear. We present three-dimensional reconstructions of beta cell primary cilia by electron and expansion microscopy. These cilia are spatially confined within deep ciliary pockets or narrow spaces between cells, lack motility components and display an unstructured axoneme organization. Furthermore, we observe a plethora of beta cell cilia-cilia and cilia-cell interactions with other islet and non-islet cells. Most remarkably, we have identified and characterized axo-ciliary synapses between beta cell cilia and the cholinergic islet innervation. These findings highlight the beta cell cilia's role in islet connectivity, pointing at their function in integrating islet intrinsic and extrinsic signals and contribute to understanding their significance in health and diabetes.
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