Hepatocyte transplantation in the Long Evans Cinnamon rat model of Wilson's disease

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-22

  Park, Seon Mee ^a   Vo, Kim ^a   Lallier, Michel ^a   Cloutier, Alexis Simon ^a   Brochu, Pierre ^a   Alvarez, Fernando ^a   Martin, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hepatocyte transplantation; LEC rat; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CERULOPLASMIN OXIDASE; COPPER; COPPER EXPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TSUKUBAENOLIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATP7B GENE; BILIARY EXCRETION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HOST CELL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPLEEN; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; WILSON DISEASE;

ANIMALIA; CINNAMOMUM VERUM;

EID: 33645677004     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/000000006783982188     Document Type: Article

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