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CELL
Volume 175, Issue 6, Pages 1607-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.11.012
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
- NIH [S10OD020141]
- Stanford Child Health Research Institute (CHRI)
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES [K08DK101603, P30DK026743] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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In the healthy adult liver, most hepatocytes proliferate minimally. However, upon physical or chemical injury to the liver, hepatocytes proliferate extensively in vivo under the direction of multibIe extra-cellular cues, including Wnt and pro-inflammatory signals. Currently, liver organoids can be generated readily in vitro from bile-duct epithelial cells, but not hepatocytes. Here, we show that TNF alpha, an injury-induced inflammatory cytokine, promotes the expansion of hepatocytes in 3D culture and enables serial passaging and long-term culture for more than 6 months. Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals broad expression of hepatocyte markers. Strikingly, in vitro-expanded hepatocyles engrafted, and significantly repopulated, the injured livers of Fah(-/-) mice. We anticipate that tissue repair signals can be harnessed to promote the expansion of otherwise hard-to-culture cell-types, with broad implications.
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