The biliary tree-a reservoir of multipotent stem cells

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 231-240

  Cardinale, Vincenzo ^a   Wang, Yunfang ^c   Carpino, Guido ^d   Mendel, Gemma ^c   Alpini, Gianfranco ^e   Gaudio, Eugenio ^b   Reid, Lola M ^c   Alvaro, Domenico ^a  

^a Department of Medico Surgical Sciences and Biotechnology   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^e TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE TREE; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLANGIOCYTE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRAHEPATIC BILIARY SYSTEM; GALLBLADDER; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PANCREAS; PANCREAS ISLET; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BILIARY TRACT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DUODENUM; GALLBLADDER; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELL NICHE;

EID: 84862786392     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2012.23     Document Type: Review

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