Is transdifferentiation in trouble?

Spectacular examples of transdifferentiation—such as brain cells turning to blood and blood to brain—have given way to sneaking suspicions about artifacts in culture, fusion, and clonality. Could cell fates be relatively fixed after all?

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Main Author: Wells, William A.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 2002
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2173253/
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spelling pubmed-21732532008-05-01 Is transdifferentiation in trouble? Wells, William A. Feature Spectacular examples of transdifferentiation—such as brain cells turning to blood and blood to brain—have given way to sneaking suspicions about artifacts in culture, fusion, and clonality. Could cell fates be relatively fixed after all? The Rockefeller University Press 2002-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2173253/ /pubmed/11916984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200203037 Text en Copyright © 2002, The Rockefeller University Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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title_short Is transdifferentiation in trouble?
title_full Is transdifferentiation in trouble?
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description Spectacular examples of transdifferentiation—such as brain cells turning to blood and blood to brain—have given way to sneaking suspicions about artifacts in culture, fusion, and clonality. Could cell fates be relatively fixed after all?
publisher The Rockefeller University Press
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2173253/
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