Isolated small intestinal segments support auxiliary livers with maintenance of hepatic functions

Nature Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 749-753

  Joseph, Brigid ^a   Berishvili, Ekaterine ^b   Benten, Daniel ^a   Kumaran, Vinay ^a   Liponava, Ekaterine ^b   Bhargava, Kuldeep ^c   Palestro, Christopher ^c   Kakabadze, Zurab ^b   Gupta, Sanjeev ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b State Medical Academy   (Georgia)

^c LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE IV; MEBROFENIN; MEBROFENIN TC 99M;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTESTINE MUCOSA; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER METABOLISM; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVASCULARIZATION; SMALL INTESTINE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD26; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3142674188     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1057     Document Type: Article

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