Organogenesis: Making Pancreas from Liver
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Organogenesis: Making Pancreas from Liver
Making endocrine pancreas cells at will is one of the major goals of cellular based therapies for diabetes. The experimentally induced conversion of hepatocytes into pancreatic cells, using a modified version of the transcription factor Pdx-1, may provide an alternative to stem cell approaches.
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00036-8