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Hepatic epithelial stem-like cells.
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Pathologie - 1 Jan 1995
Grisham J W
Abstract excerpt
The liver is composed of long-lived hepatocytes and biliary epithelial cells whose replacement ordinarily occurs from the proliferation of residual differentiated cells of each type, obviating the need for stem cells to renew hepatocytic and biliary epithelial lineages. Nevertheless, small epithelial cells that are phenotypically distinct from either hepatocytes or biliary epithelial cells can be isolated from...
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