Identification and characterization of a novel prespheroid 3-dimensional hepatocyte monolayer on galactosylated substratum

Tissue Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1455-1468

  Du, Yanan ^a,b   Han, Rongbin ^a,b   Ng, Susanne ^a,b   Ni, Jun ^a,b   Sun, Wanxin ^a   Wohland, Thorsten ^b   Ong, Sim Heng ^b   Kuleshova, Lilia ^b   Yu, Hanry ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^e NONE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; GLYCOSYLATION; MONOLAYERS; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; TOXICITY;

GALACTOSYLATED SUBSTRATUM; HEPATOCYTE MONOLAYER; HEPATOTOXICITY; TIME-LAPSE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ALBUMIN; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYTOCHROME P450; F ACTIN; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; GALACTOSE; GLYCINE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 2; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; PROTEIN ZO1; SERINE; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER TOXICITY; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPHEROID CELL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; GALACTOSE; HEPATOCYTES; MALE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34547124838     PISSN: 10763279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.2006.0381     Document Type: Article

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