Stem Cell Antigen 1-Positive Mesenchymal Cells Are the Origin of Follicular Cells during Thyroid Regeneration

• Minoru Okamoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Minoru Okamoto, Suguru Hayase

  Current address: Department of Veterinary Pathology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

  Affiliation Laboratory of Metabolism, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Suguru Hayase ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Minoru Okamoto, Suguru Hayase

  Affiliation Laboratory of Metabolism, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Masaaki Miyakoshi,

  Current address: Department of Oral Pathobiological Science, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  Affiliation Laboratory of Metabolism, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Tsubasa Murata,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Metabolism, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Shioko Kimura

  * E-mail: kimuras@mail.nih.gov

  Affiliation Laboratory of Metabolism, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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