Morphological and functional analysis of rat hepatocyte spheroids generated on poly(L-lactic acid) polymer in a pulsatile flow bioreactor

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1881-1890

  Török, Éva ^a   Vogel, Christian ^a   Lütgehetmann, Marc ^a   Ma, Peter X ^b   Dandri, Maura ^a   Petersen, Joerg ^a   Burda, Martin R ^a   Siebert, Klaus ^a   Düllmann, Jochen ^a   Rogiers, Xavier ^a   Pollok, Joerg M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DETOXIFICATION; PULSATILE FLOW; TISSUE;

AMMONIA REMOVAL; GLYCOGEN STORAGE; HEPATOCYTES; MONOETHYLGLYCINEXYLIDINE (MEGX) FORMATION;

BIOREACTORS;

AMMONIA; DEETHYLLIDOCAINE; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RAT; SPHEROID CELL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; HEPATOCYTES; LACTIC ACID; LIVER; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; POLYMERS; PULSATILE FLOW; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746700168     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.2006.12.1881     Document Type: Article

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