In the first quarter of the 20th century, reports of two patients (Albert G (Vienna) and Captain Charles Martell (Boston)) identified tumors of the parathyroid glands as being responsible for ...

"We used human embryonic stem cells as a model for ways to work out the recipe to make parathyroid cells," says Gerard M. Doherty, M.D., chief of endocrine surgery and Norman W. Thompson Professor ...

Figure 1: Lgr5 is selectively expressed in a subpopulation of chief cells at the base of mouse and human corpus glands. Figure 2: Lgr5-expressing chief cells express gastric stem cell markers.