Expression of pancreatic alpha‐amylase protein and messenger RNA in hilar primitive bile ducts and hepatocytes during human fetal liver organogenesis: an immunohistochemical and <i>in situ</i> hybridization study

Abstract

These results suggest that primitive biliary cells and hepatocytes of the hilar region in the human fetus do express pancreatic alpha-amylase protein and mRNA, and that the primitive biliary epithelial cells and hepatocytes in the hilar region share a common cell lineage with exocrine pancreatic cells.