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Regulation of hepatic stem/progenitor phenotype by microenvironment stiffness in hydrogel models of the human liver stem cell niche.
Biomaterials - 1 Oct 2011
Lozoya Oswaldo A, Wauthier Eliane, Turner Rachael A, Barbier Claire, Prestwich Glenn D, Guilak Farshid, Superfine Richard, Lubkin Sharon R, Reid Lola M
Abstract excerpt
Human livers have maturational lineages of cells within liver acini, beginning periportally in stem cell niches, the canals of Hering, and ending in polyploid hepatocytes pericentrally and cholangiocytes in bile ducts. Hepatic stem cells (hHpSCs) in vivo are partnered with mesenchymal precursors to endothelia (angioblasts) and stellate cells, and reside in regulated microenvironments, stem cell niches, containing...
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