‘This plasticity concept - the ability of bone marrow cell to transdifferentiate into heart muscle cell - is supported by experimental and clinical data.’
‘When we over-expressed Math1 in non-sensory cells of the mature cochlea, however, we found that it causes them to transdifferentiate or change their personality to become hair cells.’
‘Primordial germ cells that have been labeled using horseradish peroxidase or radioactive thymidine do not transdifferentiate, and very few transplanted cells persist outside of the gonads.’
‘A particularly interesting example of transdifferentiation, in which one cell type transdifferentiates into two different types in succession, is provided by jellyfish striated muscle.’
‘‘We thought if we can find the master-switch gene for pancreas and somehow deliver it to liver cells, we could transdifferentiate liver into pancreas,’ he explains.’
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