Hepatocyte-specific porous polymer-scaffolds of alginate/galactosylated chitosan sponge for liver-tissue engineering

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 1385-1389

  Yang, Jun ^a   Woong Chung, Teak ^b   Nagaoka, Masato ^a   Goto, Mitsuaki ^b   Cho, Chong Su ^c   Akaike, Toshihiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Bio Quest Research Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Alginate; Galactosylated chitosan; Hepatocyte; Liver tissue engineering; Sponge

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CHITOSAN; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER FAILURE; NONHUMAN; SPONGE; SYNTHESIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034801601     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011600414225     Document Type: Article

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