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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2009 Jan;49(1):318–329. doi: 10.1002/hep.22704

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Directed stem cell renewal and liver differentiation by multiple signaling pathways. Proteins direct self-renewal of embryonic stem cells (red) and then differentiation of stem cells into mature hepatocytes (blue). The mechanisms directing transformation of stem cells to cancer stem cells and hepatocellular cancer, however, remain to be elucidated.