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Embryonic Stem Cells: Hepatic Differentiation and Regenerative Medicine for the Treatment of Liver Disease
1 May 2006
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Hepatocyte transplantation is considered a potential treatment for liver diseases and a bridge for patients awaiting liver transplantation, but its application has been hampered by a limited supply of hepatocytes. Embryonic stem (ES) cells established from early mouse and human embryos are pluripotent, and proliferate indefinitely in an undifferentiated state in vitro. Since differentiation from ES cells seems to...
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