Characterisation of Adult Liver Derived Progenitor Cells (ALDPC) and use for cell therapy and in vitro drug testing
M Bock, M Rothe, U Rüdrich, G Riedel, S Kirsch, M Iken, M Ott, MP Manns · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2011 · Heft 01
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Zusammenfassung
Primary hepatocytes rapidly dedifferentiate in tissue culture and thus can be used for research purposes only for approximately 2 days.However, upon long term culture of primary hepatocytes (plate-and-wait method, [1,2]) a unique population of cells appears, we dubbed them Adult Liver Progenitor Cells (ALDPC) and are meanwhile able to generate them on a standardised basis from murine and human samples.ALDPC have a liver cell progenitor phenotype, i.e. depending on culture conditions they develop hepatic resp. cholangiocytic characteristics. Futhermore, the cells proliferate in tissue culture without obvious sign…