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a) Diagram showing the experimental design. (
b) Pluripotent marker (OCT4) expression on hiPSCs prior to induction with CHIR. (
c) Cells following 48 hr CHIR treatment expressed T (primitive streak), MIXL1 (Mesendodermal lineage) but not pluripotent (OCT4) marker. FACS analysis of cells for (
d) T and (
e) MIXL1. (
f) Schematic diagram showing the experimental design for flow cytometry analysis at the end of Stage-2 co-differentiation. (
g) Flow cytometry analysis of endoderm marker (SOX17) and mesodermal marker (CD13) on hiPSCs, cells differentiated from standard protocol with or without Activin A. Scale bar = 125 μm for 20 X images. Diagram created using BioRender (
http://biorender.com/).