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Hepatic Progenitor Specification from Pluripotent Stem Cells using a Defined Differentiation System
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Hedgehog-responsive progenitors: predictors of liver outcomes?
Jason D Coombes1, Jason Coombes, Wing-Kin Syn
1Institute of Hepatology, Foundation for Liver Research, London, United Kingdom.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.)
|May 19, 2012
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