Hepatic tissue engineering: From transplantation to customized cell-based liver directed therapies from the laboratory: Tissue Engineering Review Series

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-66

  Fiegel, Henning C ^a   Kaufmann, Peter M ^b   Bruns, Helge ^a   Kluth, Dietrich ^a   Horch, Raymund E ^c   Vacanti, Joseph P ^d   Kneser, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hepatic tissue engineering; Liver cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 41149084143     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2007.00162.x     Document Type: Article

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