Quantitative real time PCR expression of hepatocyte specific genes.

<p>Positive expression of ALB, AFP, HNF-4α and CK18 were observed in patient sera induction as well as hepatogenic cocktail induction group, compared to untreated hMSCs and normal sera induction group. No differences in expressions were observed between the two positive induction groups, but it was significantly lesser compared to HepG2 (*<i>p</i><0.05). The expressions of genes were normalized to GAPDH and mRNA of untreated hMSCs was used as calibrator.