Hepatic Stem Cells and Liver Repopulation

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 349-361

  Dabeva, Mariana D ^a   Shafritz, David A ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell transplantation; Gene therapy; Liver repopulation; Tissue specific stem cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS LIVER; GENE THERAPY; LIVER CELL; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; EMBRYO; FETUS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; PHENOTYPE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 0347623197     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-815562     Document Type: Review

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