Liver Repopulation with Hepatocyte Transplantation: New Avenues for Gene and Cell Therapy

Journal of Gene Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 386-392

  Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Malhi, Harmeet ^a   Gagandeep, S ^a   Novikoff, Phyllis ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Hepatocyte; Liver; Transplantation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONGENIC STRAIN; CYTOLOGY; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; RAT; REVIEW; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, CONGENIC; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; LIVER; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0033223420     PISSN: 1099498X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-2254(199911/12)1:6<386::AID-JGM73>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Review

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