Intramuscular transplantation of engineered hepatic tissue constructs corrects acute and chronic liver failure in mice

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 211-219

  Navarro Alvarez, Nalu ^a   Soto Gutierrez, Alejandro ^a   Chen, Yong ^b   Caballero Corbalan, Jose ^c   Hassan, Wael ^a   Kobayashi, Satoru ^d   Kondo, Yoshitaka ^a   Iwamuro, Masaya ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhide ^a   Kondo, Eisaku ^a   Tanaka, Noriaki ^a   Fox, Ira J ^e   Kobayashi, Naoya ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MARION BESSIN LIVER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d 3 DMatrix Japan Ltd   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Chronic liver failure; Extracellular matrix; Hepatic tissue engineering; Hepatocyte transplantation; Hepatocytes; SAPNF

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; BILIRUBIN; GROWTH FACTOR; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLD; NANOFIBER; SELF ASSEMBLING PEPTIDE NANOFIBER; SERUM ALBUMIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CELL LINE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAMUSCULAR TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER SUPPORT; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NANOFIBERS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC;

EID: 75349108797     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2009.11.019     Document Type: Article

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