Fibroblast-like cells emerging from cultured human pancreatic endocrine and exocrine
tissue have been reported. Although a thorough phenotypic characterization of these cells
has not yet been carried out, these cells have been hypothesized to be contaminating
fibroblasts, mesenchyme and/or possibly beta-cell progenitors. In this study, we expanded
fibroblast-like cells from adult human exocrine pancreas following islet isolation and
characterized these cells as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) based on their cell surface …