{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Ruiz-Estevez M"],"funding":["NIDDK NIH HHS","National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases","NCI NIH HHS"],"pagination":["292"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8132445"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>There are over 17,000 patients in the US waiting to receive liver transplants, and these numbers are increasing dramatically. Significant effort is being made to obtain functional hepatocytes and liver tissue that can for therapeutic use in patients. Blastocyst complementation is a challenging, innovative technology that could fundamentally change the future of organ transplantation. It requires the knockout (KO) of genes essential for cell or organ development in early stage host embryos followed by injection of donor pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) into host blastocysts to generate chimeric offspring in which progeny of the donor cells populate the open niche to develop functional tissues and organs.<h4>Methods</h4>The HHEX gene is necessary for proper liver development."],"journal":["Stem cell research & therapy"],"pubmed_title":["Liver development is restored by blastocyst complementation of HHEX knockout in mice and pigs."],"pmcid":["PMC8132445"],"funding_grant_id":["1R01DK117286-01","P30 CA077598","R01 DK117286"],"pubmed_authors":["You Y","Ruiz-Estevez M","Steevens AR","Lim S","Ongaratto FL","Steer CJ","Gafni O","Sherry L","Rodriguez-Villamil P","Webster DA","Carlson DF","Dutton JR","Hill C","Goldsmith T","Denman N","Low WC","Crane AT"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Liver development is restored by blastocyst complementation of HHEX knockout in mice and pigs.","description":"<h4>Background</h4>There are over 17,000 patients in the US waiting to receive liver transplants, and these numbers are increasing dramatically. Significant effort is being made to obtain functional hepatocytes and liver tissue that can for therapeutic use in patients. Blastocyst complementation is a challenging, innovative technology that could fundamentally change the future of organ transplantation. It requires the knockout (KO) of genes essential for cell or organ development in early stage host embryos followed by injection of donor pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) into host blastocysts to generate chimeric offspring in which progeny of the donor cells populate the open niche to develop functional tissues and organs.<h4>Methods</h4>The HHEX gene is necessary for proper liver development.","dates":{"release":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2021 May","modification":"2026-05-08T02:15:36.842Z","creation":"2025-04-07T01:02:51.63Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8132445","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34011403"],"doi":["10.1186/s13287-021-02348-z"]}}