Resident endothelial cells generate hepatocytes through cell fusion in adult mouse liver

Wenjuan Pu; Ximeng Han; Mingjun Zhang; Yan Li; Xiuzhen Huang; Lingjuan He; Bin Zhou

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2020.03.006

Volume 47 Issue 4

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Resident endothelial cells generate hepatocytes through cell fusion in adult mouse liver

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2020.03.006

Wenjuan Pu^{1, 2, 1},
Ximeng Han^{1, 2, 1},
Mingjun Zhang^{1, 2},
Yan Li^{1, 2},
Xiuzhen Huang^{1, 2},
Lingjuan He^{1, 2},
Bin Zhou^{3, 4}

1
State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
2
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
3
State Key Laboratory of Cell Biology, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China
4
School of Life Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, 100 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: zhoubin@sibs.ac.cn (Bin Zhou)
Publish Date: 2020-04-25

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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