“…Beta cells in rodent models of diabetes retain a capacity for beta cell replication and typically have a high rate of beta cell apoptosis (Moffett et al, 2015;Hao et al, 2017). In contrast, beta cells in adult humans have minimal capacity for beta cell replication (Butler et al, 2007;Menge et al, 2008;Gregg et al, 2012;Dai et al, 2017). Also, in the setting of misfolded protein stress or other toxicity, beta cells in humans have a low frequency of apoptosis due to upregulation of potent pro-survival signaling at the expense of beta cell function (Montemurro et al, 2019).…”