Next Generation Sequencing Facilitates Quantitative Analysis of Transcriptomes in fetal and 2 weeks old rat islets

Unlike adult β-cells, fetal and neonatal islets are functional immature and have blunted glucose responsiveness and decreased insulin secretion in response to stimuli. Pancreatic islets are a mixture of different cell types. Study of transcriptomes from intact islets would identify novel molecular mechanisms controlling islet functional development. At e19 and 2 weeks of age, pancreatic islets were isolated and total RNA were extracted for RNA-Seq study. Gene expression profiles were compared in the study. Examination of transcriptomes in 2 time points (e19 and 2 weeks of age)