Hepatic Stem Cells and Hepatoblasts: Identification, Isolation, and Ex Vivo Maintenance

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 86, Issue , 2008, Pages 137-225

  Wauthier, Eliane ^a   Schmelzer, Eva ^a   Turner, William ^b   Zhang, Lili ^a   LeCluyse, Ed ^e   Ruiz, Joseph ^d   Turner, Rachael ^b   Furth, M E ^c   Kubota, Hiroshi ^a   Lozoya, Oswaldo ^b   Barbier, Claire ^a   McClelland, Randall ^a   Yao, Hsin lei ^b   Moss, Nicholas ^a   Bruce, Andrew ^d   Ludlow, John ^d   Reid, L M ^a,b,c  

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

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Vesta Therapeutics   (United States)

^e CellzDirect   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HYALURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SEPARATION; CHEMISTRY; COCULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER CELL; MESODERM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA, SERUM-FREE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROGELS; MESODERM; MICE; RATS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 42949152272     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)00008-3     Document Type: Review

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