Potential of human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in studies of liver disease
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Publication Date
2015-02-10Journal Title
Hepatology
ISSN
0270-9139
Publisher
Wiley on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
Volume
62
Pages
303-311
Language
English
Type
Article
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Sampaziotis, F., Segeritz, C., & Vallier, L. (2015). Potential of human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in studies of liver disease. Hepatology, 62 303-311. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.27651
Abstract
Liver disease is a leading cause of death in the Western World. However, our insight into the underlying disease mechanisms and development of novel therapeutic agents has been hindered by limited availability of primary tissue, intra-species variability associated with the use of animal models and reduced long-term viability of isolated and diseased liver cells. The emergence of hIPSCs (human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells) and differentiation protocols to generate hepatocyte-like cells has opened the possibility of addressing these issues. Here we discuss the recent progress and potential in the production of various cell types constituting the liver and their applications to model liver diseases and test drug toxicity in vitro.
Keywords
Disease model, inherited metabolic disorders of the liver, cholangiopathies, cirrhosis, toxicology studies
Sponsorship
FS is supported by an Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship, a joint Sparks-MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship and the Cambridge Hospitals National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Center. CPS is supported by the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation. LV is supported by the ERC starting grant Relieve IMDs, the Cambridge Hospitals National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Center and the EuFp7 grants InnovaLIV and TissuGEN.
Funder references
MRC (MR/L016761/1)
MRC (G1000847)
MRC (G0800784)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.27651
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/247480
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