Ectopic transplantation of hepatocyte sheets fabricated with temperature-responsive culture dishes

Hepatology Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1140-1147

  Kano, Kyoko ^a   Yamato, Masayuki ^a   Okano, Teruo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell sheet; Ectopic transplantation; Hepatocyte transplantation; Partial hepatectomy; Temperature responsive culture dish

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER VEIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSGENIC RAT;

EID: 53349101480     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2008.00371.x     Document Type: Article

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