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Acquisition of a gastric or duodenal phenotype on heterotropic transplantation of esophagus and bladder tissues in F344 rats.
Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR - 1 Dec 2003
Watanabe H, Kinoshita K, Katayama M, Kin K, Kominami Y, Gon R, Nishiki M, Sasaki A, Shiraishi M, Uesaka T, Katoh O
Abstract excerpt
Cell differentiation is very important but not well understood. In the present study the ability of various tissues to newly-differentiate when transplanted into the fundus or the duodenum in rats was tested. Pieces of esophagus, bladder, diaphragm and trachea from 8-week-old male F344 rats were transplanted into the gastric fundus or duodenum of females and examined after 3 or 6 months. While the diaphragm was...
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