An artificial liver sinusoid with a microfluidic endothelial-like barrier for primary hepatocyte culture

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1340-1346

  Lee, Philip J ^a   Hung, Paul J ^b   Lee, Luke P ^a  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^b CellASIC Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial liver; Biomimetic; Bioreactor; Hepatocyte; Microfluidic

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BIOMIMETICS; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE; DRUG PRODUCTS; MAMMALS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TOXICITY;

ARTIFICIAL LIVERS; HEPATOCYTE;

MICROFLUIDICS;

DICLOFENAC;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER SINUSOID; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; RATS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

RATTUS;

EID: 34547581758     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.21360     Document Type: Article

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