Impact of senescence on the transdifferentiation process of human hepatic progenitor-like cells
Francesco Bellanti, Giorgia di Bello, Rosanna Tamborra, Marco Amatruda, Aurelio Lo Buglio, Michał Dobrakowski, Aleksandra Kasperczyk, Sławomir Kasperczyk, Gaetano Serviddio, Gianluigi Vendemiale
Francesco Bellanti, Giorgia di Bello, Rosanna Tamborra, Marco Amatruda, Aurelio Lo Buglio, Gaetano Serviddio, Gianluigi Vendemiale, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia 71122, Italy
Michał Dobrakowski, Aleksandra Kasperczyk, Sławomir Kasperczyk, Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze 41-808, Poland
Author contributions: Bellanti F and Vendemiale G designed and coordinated the study; Bellanti, F, di Bello G, Tamborra R, Lo Buglio A, Amatruda M, Dobrakowsky M, and Kasperczyk A performed the experiments, acquired, and analyzed data; Bellanti, F, di Bello G, Tamborra R, Amatruda M, Lo Buglio A, Dobrakowsky M, Kasperczyk A, Kasperczyk S, Serviddio G, and Vendemiale G interpreted the data; Bellanti F wrote the manuscript; Kasperczyk S, Serviddio G, and Vendemiale G supervised the manuscript; All authors approved the final version of the article.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Foggia.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors have nothing to disclose.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
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http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Francesco Bellanti, MD, PhD, Doctor, Associate Professor, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, viale Pinto 1, Foggia 71122, Italy. francesco.bellanti@unifg.it
Received: April 26, 2021
Peer-review started: April 26, 2021
First decision: May 12, 2021
Revised: June 14, 2021
Accepted: August 23, 2021
Article in press: August 23, 2021
Published online: October 26, 2021