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Signals from pancreatic mesoderm influence the expression of a pancreatic phenotype in hepatic stem-like cell line PHeSC-A2 in vitro: a preliminary study.
Acta histochemica - 1 May 2011
Augustine Tanya N, Kramer Beverley
Abstract excerpt
The ex vivo generation of pancreatic cells from adult hepatic stem cells for subsequent transplantation has been proposed as a novel treatment for Diabetes mellitus. The pancreas and liver, closely related developmentally, may retain a shared (hepatopancreatic) stem cell whose plasticity could be exploited to differentiate into either lineage, dependent on environmental signals. This novel study investigated...
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