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Cell Lineages in Hepatic Development and the Identification of Progenitor Cells in Normal and Injured Liver
1 Dec 1993
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The search for liver stem or progenitor cells has a long history, but there is now sufficient evidence to indicate that such cells do exist in adult animals and probably also in humans (see Refs. 1-6 for reviews). They constitute a reserve compartment that is activated in situations of severe liver injury in which hepatocytes cannot mount an appropriate proliferative response. Proliferation of cells of this...
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