Microtubules’ role in insulin secretion control revealed

Posted by vuit_admin on Friday, December 4, 2015 in Uncategorized .

Irina Kaverina, Ph.D., Xiadong Zhu, Ph.D., and colleagues began using pancreatic beta cells as a model to study microtubule function — to explore how microtubules “traffic” cargo such as insulin granules from the cell interior to the periphery.