A novel method for liver repopulation: Heterografting of micro-liver slices in a rat model

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 421-424

  Gur, Eyal ^a   Deckel, Roi ^a   Zvibel, Isabel ^a   Brazovsky, Eli ^a   Kariv, Revital ^a   Brill, Shlomo ^a   Halpern, Zamir ^a   Oren, Ran ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECIPIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE SLICE; WILD TYPE; XENOGRAFT;

EID: 0037387865     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jlts.2003.50056     Document Type: Article

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