Bigger may not be better when it comes to hepatocytes

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 16-18

  Strom, Stephen C ^a   Cai, Hongbo ^a   Ellis, Ewa ^a   Mitamura, Keitaro ^a   Miki, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; DONOR; EDITORIAL; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER SINUSOID; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645096289     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20593     Document Type: Editorial

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