liver/biliary system
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• hepatoblast differentiation is perturbed such that they differentiate into hybrid cells that display characteristics of both hepatocytes and biliary cells
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• cord-like organization of the epithelial cells in the parenchyma is severely perturbed in E15.5 embryos with epithelial cells forming clusters surrounded by hematopoietic cells
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endocrine/exocrine glands
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• at E13.5, dorsal pancreas is smaller than in Onecut1-deficient embryos; no ventral bud is observed, instead consisting of two small cell clusters on the duodenum
• endocrine differentiation is more affected than in Onecut1-null embryos; pancreas sections almost completely lack Neurog3-expressing cells (~0.5 cells/section)
• insulin- and glucagon-expressing cells are almost absent
• endocrine differentiation initiates normally at E9.5 and progresses comparably to wild-type at E10.5, but becomes defective by E12.5
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