Functional characterization of serum-free cultured rat hepatocytes for downstream transplantation applications

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 497-506

  Aurich, Hendryk ^a,c   Koenig, Sarah ^b   Schneider, Christian ^a   Walldorf, Jens ^a   Krause, Petra ^b   Fleig, Wolfgang E ^a   Christ, Bruno ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Zentrum für Angewandte Medizinische und Humanbiologische Forschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture; DPPIV; Hepatocyte; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CONNEXIN 32; CYTOKERATIN 18; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP);

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HOST CELL; LIVER PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECIPIENT; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 26644461749     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000005783982855     Document Type: Article

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