Hepatoma SK Hep-1 Cells Exhibit Characteristics of Oncogenic Mesenchymal Stem Cells with Highly Metastatic Capacity

• Jong Ryeol Eun ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jong Ryeol Eun, Yong Jin Jung

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Institute for Regenerative Cures, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Yeungnam University College Medicine, Daegu, Korea

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• Yong Jin Jung ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jong Ryeol Eun, Yong Jin Jung

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Institute for Regenerative Cures, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

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• Yanling Zhang,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Institute for Regenerative Cures, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, School of Biotechnology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

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• Yanhong Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Benjamin Tschudy-Seney,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Institute for Regenerative Cures, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Rajen Ramsamooj,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Neil D. Theise,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Mark A. Zern,

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Institute for Regenerative Cures, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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• Yuyou Duan

  * E-mail: yduan@ucdavis.edu

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America, Institute for Regenerative Cures, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, United States of America

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