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In Vitro Pancreas Organogenesis from Dispersed Mouse Embryonic Progenitors
Published on: July 19, 2014
Nestin is expressed in mesenchymal and not epithelial cells of the developing mouse pancreas
1Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umea, Sweden.
Abstract:
Stem cell research and the prospect of stem cell based therapies depend critically on the identification of specific markers that can be used for the identification and selection of stem and progenitor cells. Nestin is expressed in neuronal progenitor cells and has also been suggested to mark multipotent pancreatic stem cells. We show here that, throughout pancreatic development, markers of pancreatic progenitor cells and differentiated pancreatic cells are expressed in E-cadherin-positive epithelial cells that do not express nestin. The data presented demonstrate that nestin is expressed in mesenchymal and not epithelial cells of the developing mouse pancreas.
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