Human hepatic stem cells from fetal and postnatal donors

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 204, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1973-1987

  Schmelzer, Eva ^a   Zhang, Lili ^a   Bruce, Andrew ^b   Wauthier, Eliane ^a   Ludlow, John ^b   Yao, Hsin Lei ^a   Moss, Nicholas ^a   Melhem, Alaa ^a   McClelland, Randall ^a   Turner, William ^a   Kulik, Michael ^b   Sherwood, Sonya ^b   Tallheden, Tommi ^a   Cheng, Nancy ^a   Furth, Mark E ^c   Reid, Lola M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Vesta Therapeutics   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CD1 ANTIGEN; CD133 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CLAUDIN 3; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 8; DESMIN; EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; HERMES ANTIGEN; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; TELOMERASE; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL SELECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL; UPREGULATION;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANTIGENS, CD45; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MEMBRANE; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE-1; LIVER; MESODERM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 34547803161     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20061603     Document Type: Article

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