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Stabilization of β-catenin affects mouse embryonic liver growth and hepatoblast fate

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A key role is demonstrated for the Wnt/β‐catenin pathway in liver embryonic growth and in controlling the fate of hepatoblasts, preventing them from differentiating toward the hepatocyte lineage, and guiding them to biliary ductal morphogenesis.
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This article is published in Hepatology.The article was published on 2007-11-25 and is currently open access. It has received 147 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hepatocyte differentiation & Wnt signaling pathway.

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Recent advances in 2D and 3D in vitro systems using primary hepatocytes, alternative hepatocyte sources and non-parenchymal liver cells and their use in investigating mechanisms of hepatotoxicity, cell signaling and ADME.

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TL;DR: This review encompasses the most important advances in liver functions and hepatotoxicity and analyzes which mechanisms can be studied in vitro and how closely hepatoma, stem cell and iPS cell–derived hepatocyte-like-cells resemble real hepatocytes.
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Organogenesis and development of the liver.

TL;DR: The basic molecular mechanisms that control the formation of the liver as an organ are reviewed.
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Notch Signaling in Development, Tissue Homeostasis, and Disease

TL;DR: The current understanding of how Notch signaling can become derailed, either by direct mutations or by aberrant regulation, and the expanding spectrum of diseases and cancers that is a consequence of Notch dysregulation are discussed.
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Cancer stem cells in the development of liver cancer

TL;DR: An increased understanding of the molecular signaling events that regulate cellular hierarchy and stemness, and success in defining key CSC-specific genes, have opened up new avenues to accelerate the development of novel diagnostic and treatment strategies.
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Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in development and disease.

TL;DR: A remarkable interdisciplinary effort has unraveled the WNT (Wingless and INT-1) signal transduction cascade over the last two decades, finding that Germline mutations in the Wnt pathway cause several hereditary diseases, and somatic mutations are associated with cancer of the intestine and a variety of other tissues.
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Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha controls the development of a hepatic epithelium and liver morphogenesis.

TL;DR: It is reported that hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α (Hnf4α) is essential for morphological and functional differentiation of hepatocytes, accumulation of hepatic glycogen stores and generation of a hepatic epithelium, and the morphogenetic parameters controlled by Hnf 4α in hepatocytes are essential for normal liver architecture, including the organization of the sinusoidal endothelium.
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Mammalian hepatocyte differentiation requires the transcription factor HNF-4alpha.

TL;DR: It is shown that complementation of HNF-4alpha embryos with a tetraploid embryo-derived wild-type visceral endoderm rescues this early developmental arrest and allows HNF -4alpha(-/-) embryos to proceed normally through midgestation stages of development, and concludes that H NF-4 alpha is both essential for hepatocyte differentiation during mammalian liver development and also crucial for metabolic regulation and liver function.
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Regulatory phases of early liver development: paradigms of organogenesis.

TL;DR: The acquisition of competence to express liver-specific genes by the endoderm, the control of early hepatic growth, the coordination of hepatic and vascular development and the cell differentiation that is necessary to generate a functioning liver are discussed.
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