Transdifferentiation is defined as an irreversible switch in postnatal life of one differentiated cell to another. Transdifferentiation from different cellular origins into pancreatic-like β-cells is of clinical significance since this approach may offer a potential cure for diabetes. In order to achieve this goal, the liver is considered as a suitable candidate due to its close developmental relationship to the pancreas, its large size and a well-documented regenerative capacity that could provide enough original tissues to initiate the transdifferentiation procedure. In this chapter, we describe a protocol to overexpress Pdx1, a master regulator essential for pancreas development in the cultured human liver cell line, HepG2. © 2009 Humana Press, a part of Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Li, W. C. (2009). In vitro transdifferentiation of human hepatoma cells into pancreatic-like cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, 560, 99–110. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-448-3_9
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