Rejuvenating liver and pancreas through cell transdifferentiation

Cell Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 616-619

  Yi, Fei ^a   Liu, Guang Hui ^a,c   Belmonte, Juan Carlos Izpisua ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b CENTER OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE IN BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METHODOLOGY; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE;

CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INSULIN-SECRETING CELLS; LIVER; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; PANCREAS; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 84859368332     PISSN: 10010602     EISSN: 17487838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cr.2012.33     Document Type: Article

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