Pancreatic stem cell-like cells in histogenesis of pancreatic endocrine tumors / 中华内分泌代谢杂志

ABSTRACT

Specimens from 12 cases of pancreatic endocrine tumors were investigated by light and electron microscopy and immunohistochemical staining. Pancreatic stem cell-like cells with special characteristics of pancreatic stem cell were found in the proliferating small ductules and dispersed at the margins of pancreatic endocrine tumors in all the cases studied.