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Establishment of hepatic and neural differentiation platforms of Wilson's disease specific induced pluripotent stem cells.
Protein & cell - 1 Nov 2012
Yi Fei, Qu Jing, Li Mo, Suzuki Keiichiro, Kim Na Young, Liu Guang-Hui, Belmonte Juan Carlos Izpisua
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The combination of disease-specific human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and directed cell differentiation offers an ideal platform for modeling and studying many inherited human diseases. Wilson's disease (WD) is a monogenic disorder of toxic copper accumulation caused by pathologic mutations of the ATP7B gene. WD affects multiple organs with primary manifestations in the liver and central nervous system...
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