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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

3 Thyroid

Thyroid stem cells

ey0015.3-13 | Thyroid stem cells | ESPEYB15

3.13 Pluripotent stem cell differentiation reveals distinct developmental pathways regulating lung- versus thyroid-lineage specification

M Serra , KD Alysandratos , F Hawkins , KB McCauley , A Jacob , J Choi , IS Caballero , M Vedaie , AA Kurmann , L Ikonomou , AN Hollenberg , JM Shannon , DN Kotton

To read the full abstract: Development 2017;144:3879-3893Regenerative medicine techniques are being widely investigated for organs without regenerative capacity, such as lung. Whether pluripotent stem cell derived thyroid organoids will be used in the future as a regenerative medicine approach to treat hypothyroidism is unclear. In the context of an easily available, very cheap and non-in...