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Identification of small molecules for human hepatocyte expansion and iPS differentiation

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A high-throughput screening platform for primary human hepatocytes is developed to identify small molecules in two different classes that can be used to generate renewable sources of functional human liver cells in vitro.
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Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Scientific Planning and Allocation of Resources Committee Grant)

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Maintenance of Primary Hepatocyte Functions In Vitro by Inhibiting Mechanical Tension-Induced YAP Activation.

TL;DR: It is found that mechanical tension-induced yes-associated protein activation triggers hepatocyte dedifferentiation and a small molecular cocktail is identified that can maintain hepatocyte functions over the long term and in vivo repopulation capacity by targeting actin polymerization and actomyosin contraction.
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Shaping the Cell and the Future: Recent Advancements in Biophysical Aspects Relevant to Regenerative Medicine

TL;DR: This review highlights how quantitation of cellular morphology is useful not only for understanding the effects of different microenvironmental or biophysical stimuli on cells, but also how it could be used as a predictive marker of biological responses, e.g., by predicting future mesenchymal stromal cell differentiation.
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Expression kinetics of hepatic progenitor markers in cellular models of human liver development recapitulating hepatocyte and biliary cell fate commitment

TL;DR: The implications of various liver stem or progenitor cell markers and their bipotency are described, based on the pluripotent stem cell-derived model of human liver development, for future studies using the human cellular model of liver and biliary development.
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Generation of human pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocyte-like cells for drug toxicity screening.

TL;DR: The current status of hepatocyte differentiation technology from human ES/iPS cells and a novel method to predict drug-induced liver injury using human ES /iPS-HLCs are introduced.
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A Pathway to Personalizing Therapy for Metastases Using Liver-on-a-Chip Platforms

TL;DR: All-human 3D ex vivo hepatic microphysiological system (MPS) (a.k.a. liver-on-a-chip) is adapted to investigate human micrometastases to investigate the occurrence of liver metastases, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of these sources are examined.
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Abstract: The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report here the genome sequence of the Brown Norway (BN) rat strain. The sequence represents a high-quality ‘draft’ covering over 90% of the genome. The BN rat sequence is the third complete mammalian genome to be deciphered, and three-way comparisons with the human and mouse genomes resolve details of mammalian evolution. This first comprehensive analysis includes genes and proteins and their relation to human disease, repeated sequences, comparative genome-wide studies of mammalian orthologous chromosomal regions and rearrangement breakpoints, reconstruction of ancestral karyotypes and the events leading to existing species, rates of variation, and lineage-specific and lineage-independent evolutionary events such as expansion of gene families, orthology relations and protein evolution.
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Pancreatic endoderm derived from human embryonic stem cells generates glucose-responsive insulin-secreting cells in vivo

TL;DR: It is shown that pancreatic endoderm derived from human embryonic stem (hES) cells efficiently generates glucose-responsive endocrine cells after implantation into mice, and it is demonstrated that implantation of hES cell–derived pancreaticEndoderm protects against streptozotocin-induced hyperglycemia.