Can clamping of splenic vessels prevent abrupt increase of portal vein pressure and migration of transplanted hepatocytes to the liver after intrasplenic hepatocyte transplantation?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 2425-2429

  Kim, Wook Hwan ^a   Lee, Jae Ho ^a   Han, Sang Uk ^a   Wang, Hee Jung ^a   Kim, Myung Wook ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Clamping; Distribution; Hepatocyte transplantation

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM 51; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; EDETIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLAMP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; GENETIC DISORDER; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENIC VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONSTRICTION; DIMETHYLNITROSAMINE; EDETIC ACID; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPLEEN;

EID: 0032439655     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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