Publications

Selected Publications

Full list of publications can be found here

2024 (click on the image to go to the publication)

Nirmala Balasenthilkumaran, Jennifer Whitesell, Rachel Friedman, Vira Kravets

Network approach reveals preferential T-cell and macrophage association with α-linked β-cells in early stage of insulitis in NOD mice.

Frontiers in Network Physiology

2024 (click on the image to go to the publication)

Marko Šterk, Yaowen Zhang, Viljem Pohorec, Eva Paradiž Leitgeb, Jurij Dolenšek, Richard K. P. Benninger, Andraž Stožer , Vira Kravets , Marko Gosak

Network representation of multicellular activity in pancreatic islets: Technical considerations for functional connectivity analysis

PLOS Computational Biology

2022 (click on the image to go to the publication)

Benninger, Kravets

The physiological role of β-cell heterogeneity in pancreatic islet function. 

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

2021 (click on the image to go to the publication)

Kravets, Dwulet, Schleicher, Hodson, Davis, Pyle, Piscopio, Sticco-Ivins, Benninger

Functional architecture of pancreatic islets identifies a population of first responder cells that drive the first-phase calcium response.


PLOS Biology

2020 (click on the image to go to the publication)

do Amaral, Kravets, Dwulet, Farnsworth, Piscopio, Schleicher, Miranda, Benninger

Caloric restriction recovers impaired β-cell-β-cell gap junction coupling, calcium oscillation coordination, and insulin secretion in prediabetic mice.


American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism