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## Abstract Embryonic stem cells serve as a promising technology to obtain specific cell types for a number of biomedical applications. Because traditional techniques, such as embryoid body formation result in a wide array of differentiated cells such as hepatic, neuronal, and cardiac lineages, strategies have been utilized which favor cell‐specific differentiation to generate more uniformity. In the present study, we have investigated the use of sodium butyrate in a monolayer culture configuration to mediate hepatocyte differentiation of murine embryonic stem cells. Several functional assays used to characterize hepatocyte function (viz. urea secretion, intracellular albumin content, cytokeratin 18, and glycogen staining) were used to analyze the differentiating cell population, suggesting the presence of an enriched population of hepatocyte‐like cells. Since mature hepatocytes mediate energy metabolism predominantly through oxidative means as opposed to hepatocyte precursors, which are primarily glycolytic, we have performed a kinetic analysis of glycolytic and functional capacity to characterize the differentiated cells. In conjunction with mitochondrial mass and activity measur

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Author

N.S. Sharma; R. Shikhanovich; R. Schloss; M.L. Yarmush

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.; Wiley (ISSN 0006-3592)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)