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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-6-9
pubmed:abstractText
The aim of this study was to determine whether passaged rat fetal liver cells are functional hepatoblasts. Hepatocyte/hepatoblast- and liver myofibroblast-gene-expressions were studied in adult and fetal rat liver tissues as well as in primary and passaged cultures of isolated rat fetal liver cells at both the mRNA and protein level. Desmin- and Alpha-Smooth Muscle Actin (SMA)-positive cells were located in the walls of liver vessels, whereas Desmin-positive/SMA-negative cells were distributed within the liver parenchyma. Primary cultures contained Prox1-positive hepatoblasts, Desmin/SMA-positive myofibroblasts and only a few Desmin-positive/SMA-negative cells. Albumin and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) could be detected in the primary cultures and to a lesser extent after the first passage. The number of Desmin-positive/SMA-negative cells decreased with successive passage, such that after the second passage, only Desmin/SMA-positive cells could be detected. SMA-gene-expression increased during the passages, suggesting that myofibroblasts become the major cell population of fetal liver cell cultures over time. This observation needs to be taken into account, should passaged fetal liver cells be used for liver cell transplantation. Moreover it contradicts the concept of epithelial-mesenchymal transformation and suggests rather that selective overgrowth of mesenchymal cells occurs in culture.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1432-119X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
132
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
11-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Hepatoblast and mesenchymal cell-specific gene-expression in fetal rat liver and in cultured fetal rat liver cells.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Strasse 40, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't