The effect of donor and recipient age on engraftment of tissue- engineered liver

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 357-360

  Cusick, Robert A ^b   Lee, Hanmin ^b   Sano, Kaoru ^b   Pollok, Joerg M ^b   Utsunomiya, Hirofumi ^b   Ma, Peter X ^b   Langer, Robert ^b   Vacanti, Joseph P ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fetal hepatocytes; hepatocyte transplantation; tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

POLYLACTIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT;

EID: 0031057947     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(97)90210-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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