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In future studies, it will be challenging to recapitulate an entire anterior pituitary
gland that contains all endocrine components in three-dimensional cultures of
human ES or iPS cells and to use such artificial pituitary tissues for orthotopic trans-
plantation into the sella of a large mammal. To achieve this long-term goal, further
studies are needed before pituitary regenerative medicine can be directly transferred
to clinical use.
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