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SUBMITTER: Sampaziotis F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4768345 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sampaziotis Fotios F de Brito Miguel Cardoso MC Madrigal Pedro P Bertero Alessandro A Saeb-Parsy Kourosh K Soares Filipa A C FAC Schrumpf Elisabeth E Melum Espen E Karlsen Tom H TH Bradley J Andrew JA Gelson William Th WT Davies Susan S Baker Alastair A Kaser Arthur A Alexander Graeme J GJ Hannan Nicholas R F NRF Vallier Ludovic L
Nature biotechnology 20150713 8
The study of biliary disease has been constrained by a lack of primary human cholangiocytes. Here we present an efficient, serum-free protocol for directed differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into cholangiocyte-like cells (CLCs). CLCs show functional characteristics of cholangiocytes, including bile acids transfer, alkaline phosphatase activity, γ-glutamyl-transpeptidase activity and physiological responses to secretin, somatostatin and vascular endothelial growth factor. We ...[more]