Elevated hepatocyte-specific functions in fetal rat hepatocytes co-cultured with adult rat hepatocytes

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2965-2973

  Van Poll, Daan ^a,b   Sokmensuer, Cenk ^a   Ahmad, Noor ^a   Tilles, Arno W ^a   Berthiaume, François ^a   Toner, Mehmet ^a   Yarmush, Martin L ^a,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELLS; COLLAGEN; PROTEINS;

FETAL RAT HEPATOCYTES; HEPATOCYTE-SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS; LIVER-SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS; TRANSPLANTABLE CELLS;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE;

ALBUMIN; CYTOCHROME P450; UREA;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COCULTURE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS CELL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

RATTUS;

EID: 33846430595     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.2006.12.2965     Document Type: Article

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