Human Embryonic and Rat Adult Stem Cells with Primitive Endoderm-Like Phenotype Can Be Fated to Definitive Endoderm, and Finally Hepatocyte-Like Cells

• Philip Roelandt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Roelandt, Karen Ann Pauwelyn, Pau Sancho-Bru, Kartik Subramanian

  * E-mail: Ka.pauwelyn@gmail.com (KAP); Philip.roelandt@med.kuleuven.be (PR)

  Affiliations Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, Hepatology Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

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• Karen Ann Pauwelyn ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Roelandt, Karen Ann Pauwelyn, Pau Sancho-Bru, Kartik Subramanian

  * E-mail: Ka.pauwelyn@gmail.com (KAP); Philip.roelandt@med.kuleuven.be (PR)

  Affiliations Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, Hepatology Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

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• Pau Sancho-Bru ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Roelandt, Karen Ann Pauwelyn, Pau Sancho-Bru, Kartik Subramanian

  Affiliation Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

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• Kartik Subramanian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Philip Roelandt, Karen Ann Pauwelyn, Pau Sancho-Bru, Kartik Subramanian

  Affiliations Stem Cell Institute Minnesota, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Bipasha Bose,

  Affiliation Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

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• Laura Ordovas,

  Affiliation Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

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• Kim Vanuytsel,

  Affiliation Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

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• Martine Geraerts,

  Affiliation Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

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• Meri Firpo,

  Affiliation Stem Cell Institute Minnesota, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Rita De Vos,

  Affiliation Pathology Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Johan Fevery,

  Affiliation Hepatology Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

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• Frederik Nevens,

  Affiliation Hepatology Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium

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• Wei-Shou Hu,

  Affiliations Stem Cell Institute Minnesota, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Catherine M. Verfaillie

  Affiliation Interdepartmental Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

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