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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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HBV-related hepatocarcinogenesis: the role of signalling pathways and innovative ex vivo research models

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Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Hepatology: Beyond the Proof of Concept

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Cell sources, liver support systems and liver tissue engineering: alternatives to liver transplantation.

TL;DR: This review provides a compact summary of the issues, and the locations of liver support systems and tissue engineering, with an emphasis on reproducible and useful sources of hepatocytes including various candidates formed by differentiation from stem cells.
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Concise review: tissue-specific microvascular endothelial cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells.

TL;DR: The nature of EC tissue specificity in vivo is discussed and general hPSC‐EC differentiation protocols generated over the last decade are reviewed, including EC and parenchymal cell coculture, directed differentiation, and direct reprogramming strategies.
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An in vitro liver model on microfluidic device for analysis of capecitabine metabolite using mass spectrometer as detector.

TL;DR: In this work, an in vitro liver model in a microfluidic device to imitate and detect prodrug metabolism was developed, showing a potential to replace conventional drug screening methods.
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Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolutionRat Genome Sequencing Project ConsortiumNature200442849352115057822

Richard A. Gibbs, +226 more
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.