.... Cholangiocyte Hepatoblast Hepatocyte Liver development Transcription factors The process of liver diverticulum (liver bud) organogenesis is remarkably well conserved across vertebrate species. By E9.0 in mice, the ventral domain of the foregut adjacent to the cardiac mesoderm and septum...

...Naoki Tanimizu; Seiji Kobayashi; Norihisa Ichinohe; Toshihiro Mitaka Late fetal and adult livers are reported to contain bipotential liver stem/progenitor cells (LPCs), which share surface markers, including epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM), with cholangiocytes and differentiate into both...

...Mayuko Okabe; Yuko Tsukahara; Minoru Tanaka; Kaori Suzuki; Shigeru Saito; Yoshiko Kamiya; Tohru Tsujimura; Koji Nakamura; Atsushi Miyajima Hepatic oval cells are considered to be facultative hepatic stem cells(HSCs) that differentiate into hepatocytes and cholangiocytes in severely injured liver...

... of cholangiocyte marker-positive fetal liver epithelial cells (CMP-FLEC). Differentiation potential was evaluated by injecting cell isolates from dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) positive (DPPIV+) Fischer donor rats into the spleen of partially hepatectomized, DPPIV negative (DPPIV-)Fischer host rats exposed...