Liver tissue engineering: Successes & limitations

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 534, Issue , 2003, Pages 57-67

  Dixit, Vivek ^a   Elçin, Y Murat ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LIVER INJURY; LIVER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANGIOGENESIS; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER CELL; VASCULARIZATION;

BIOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; POLYMERS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1542542366     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0063-6_5     Document Type: Article

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