Functional stability of porcine hepatocyte spheroids in various culture systems under 100% porcine and human plasma conditions

Artificial Organs

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 56-60

  Sakai, Yasuyuki ^a   Naruse, Katsutoshi ^b   Nagashima, Ikuo ^b   Muto, Tetsuichiro ^b   Suzuki, Motoyuki ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioartificial liver; Collagen gel; Human plasma; Porcine hepatocyte; Porcine plasma; Spheroid

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; DETOXIFICATION; PLASMA (HUMAN); PLASMA STABILITY;

BIOARTIFICIAL LIVER; COLLAGEN GELS; DIRECT CONTACT; HEPATOCYTE/SPHEROID; HEPATOCYTES; HUMAN PLASMAS; PORCINE HEPATOCYTE; PORCINE PLASMA; SPHEROID; SYNTHESISED;

COLLAGEN;

COLLAGEN GEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030041488     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.1996.tb04419.x     Document Type: Article

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