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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Endocrinol. 2023 Jun 19;258(1):e220298. doi: 10.1530/JOE-22-0298

Figure 1. Articles published on α cells vs. β cells.

Figure 1.

Graph shows a yearly count of research articles indexed in PubMed containing ‘alpha cell’ or ‘beta cell’ in the Title/Abstract field. Though α cells are mentioned far less frequently than β cells in paper titles and abstracts, there has been a rapid rise in research studies of both cell types in the past two decades (from 2000 to 2020, a three-fold increase for β cells and five-fold increase for α cells). The authors emphasize that this dataset represents only a small sample of α and β cell-related research but nonetheless reflects overall trends in the field.