Highly porous polymer matrices as a three-dimensional culture system for hepatocytes

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 463-468

  Kaufmann, P M ^a,b   Heimrath, S ^c   Kim, B S ^b   Mooney, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodegradable polymers; Hepatocytes; Poly (L lactic acid); Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; COLLAGEN; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; BIODEGRADATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SECRETION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZED CELL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COLLAGEN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GELS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LACTIC ACID; LIVER; POLYMERS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030828489     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-6897(97)00052-3     Document Type: Article

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