Culture of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells with Serum but without Exogenous Growth Factors Is Sufficient to Generate Functional Hepatocyte-Like Cells

• Karen Pauwelyn ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karen Pauwelyn, Philip Roelandt

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

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• Philip Roelandt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Karen Pauwelyn, Philip Roelandt

  * E-mail: Philip.roelandt@med.kuleuven.be

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

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• Tineke Notelaers,

  Affiliation Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

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• Pau Sancho-Bru,

  Affiliations Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomedicale August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain

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• Johan Fevery,

  Affiliation Department of Hepatology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• Catherine M. Verfaillie

  Affiliation Stem Cell Institute Leuven, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium

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