New insights into liver stem cells

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 455-462

  Gaudio, E ^a   Carpino, G ^b   Cardinale, V ^c   Franchitto, A ^a   Onori, P ^d   Alvaro, D ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^c Department of Clinical Medicine ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Estrogens; Hepatic progenitor cells; Isolation; Niche

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL RENEWAL; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; STEM CELL NICHE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS;

EID: 67349202729     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.03.009     Document Type: Short Survey

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