The mesenchymal transcription factor SNAI-1 instructs human liver specification

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and the mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) are processes required for embryo organogenesis. Liver develops from the epithelial foregut endoderm from which the liver progenitors, hepatoblasts, are specified. The migrating hepatoblasts acquire a mesenchymal...

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Main Authors: Orit Goldman, Victor Julian Valdes, Elena Ezhkova, Valerie Gouon-Evans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-07-01
Series:Stem Cell Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873506116300393