Publications by authors named "Maliheh Parvanak"

Breast cancer remains the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the principal cause of mortality by malignancy in women. HER2 positive subtype includes 15-20% of breast cancer cases. This receptor could be an appropriate mark for targeting breast cancer cells.

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Cell therapy and tissue engineering as promising candidates for the liver transplantation dilemma are of special interest. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are one of the best sources in this field, but their differentiation methods to hepatocytes have remained challenging. We transduced human iPSCs (hiPSCs) with miR-122 and off-let-7f (hiPSCs ) to evaluate how they can differentiate hiPSCs to hepatocyte-like cells (HLCs) without any extrinsic growth factor.

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