Transplanted bone marrow regenerates liver by cell fusion

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6934, 2003, Pages 901-904

  Vassilopoulos, George ^a   Wang, Pei Rong ^a   Russell, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; GENES; HISTOLOGY; PROTEINS; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

CELL FUSION;

BONE;

CD45 ANTIGEN; DNA; FUMARYLACETOACETASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS VECTOR;

MEDICINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER CELL; LIVER NODULE; LIVER REGENERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; DIPLOIDY; DNA; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HYBRID CELLS; HYDROLASES; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYPLOIDY; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; HUMAN SPUMARETROVIRUS;

EID: 0037464545     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01539     Document Type: Article

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