C-Kit expression as a feature of functional differentiation of progenitor cells

Abstract

The resulted findings and the analysis of C-kit expression during human prenatal development allow referring the receptor of stem cells factor to the markers of committed precursor cells, the expression of which coincides with the functional differentiation of precursor cells. In the human pancreas there is a common C-kit-positive progenitor cell of and#945;- and and#946;-cells of the islets of Langerhans, which remains in the organ after birth.