Whole fetal liver transplantation - A new approach to cell therapy

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 929-933

  Oren, Ran ^a   Breitman, Yigal ^a   Gur, Eyal ^a   Traister, Alexandra ^a   Zvibel, Isabel ^a   Brazovsky, Eli ^a   Shafritz, David A ^b   Halpern, Zamir ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CYCLINE; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; GLYCOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS LIVER; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECIPIENT; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WILD TYPE;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTIGENS, CD26; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GENE DELETION; GLYCOGEN; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TISSUE THERAPY; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 23744491196     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20481     Document Type: Article

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