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Exocrine cell transdifferentiation in dexamethasone-treated rat pancreas.
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology - 1 Jan 2004
Lardon Jessy, Huyens Niki, Rooman Ilse, Bouwens Luc
Abstract excerpt
Injured pancreatic tissue, for example, after duct ligation, undergoes remodeling, which involves the replacement of exocrine acini by duct-like structures. This acinoductal metaplasia is probably at least partly due to transdifferentiation of amylase-positive, cytokeratin-20 (CK20)-negative acinar cells into amylase-negative, CK20-positive duct-like cells. Due to the kinetics of these phenotypic changes,...
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