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BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 1095-1106Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10529-014-1454-0
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Cell differentiation; Galactosylated collagen; Hepatic-specific genes; Hepatocyte-like cells; Human embryonic stem cells; Stem cell differentiation
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- Royan Institute
- National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan [NSC 102-2221-E-011-010]
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Due to their important biomedical applications, functional human embryonic stem cell-derived hepatocyte-like cells (hESC-HLCs) are an attractive topic in the field of stem cell differentiation. Here, we have initially differentiated hESCs into functional hepatic endoderm (HE) and continued the differentiation by replating them onto galactosylated collagen (GC) and collagen matrices. The differentiation of hESC-HE cells into HLCs on GC substrate showed significant up-regulation of hepatic-specific genes such as ALB, HNF4 alpha, CYP3A4, G6P, and ASGR1. There was more albumin secretion and urea synthesis, as well as more cytochrome p450 activity, in differentiated HLCs on GC compared to the collagen-coated substrate. These results suggested that GC substrate has the potential to be used for in vitro maturation of hESC-HLCs.
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