Pluripotency Gene Expression and Growth Control in Cultures of Peripheral Blood Monocytes during Their Conversion into Programmable Cells of Monocytic Origin (PCMO): Evidence for a Regulatory Role of Autocrine Activin and TGF-β

• Hendrik Ungefroren ,

  * E-mail: hendrik.ungefroren@uksh.de

  Current address: First Department of Medicine, UKSH, Lübeck, Germany

  Affiliation Clinic for Applied Cellular Medicine, UKSH, Kiel, Germany

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• Ayman Hyder,

  Affiliation Clinic for Applied Cellular Medicine, UKSH, Kiel, Germany

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• Hebke Hinz,

  Affiliation Clinic for Applied Cellular Medicine, UKSH, Kiel, Germany

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• Stephanie Groth,

  Current address: Department of Dermatology, UKSH, Lübeck, Germany

  Affiliation Clinic for Applied Cellular Medicine, UKSH, Kiel, Germany

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• Hans Lange,

  Affiliation Clinic for Applied Cellular Medicine, UKSH, Kiel, Germany

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• Karim M. Fawzy El-Sayed,

  Current address: Oral Medicine and Periodontology Department, Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

  Affiliation Clinic for Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, School of Dental Medicine, Kiel, Germany

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• Sabrina Ehnert,

  Affiliation Siegfried Weller Institute for Trauma Research, BG Trauma Center, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Andreas K. Nüssler,

  Affiliation Siegfried Weller Institute for Trauma Research, BG Trauma Center, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Fred Fändrich,

  Affiliation Clinic for Applied Cellular Medicine, UKSH, Kiel, Germany

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• Frank Gieseler

  Affiliation First Department of Medicine, UKSH, Lübeck, Germany

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