Current status of stem cell therapy for liver diseases

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1261-1279

  De Freitas Souza, Bruno Solano ^a   Nogueira, Renata Campos ^a   De Oliveira, Sheilla Andrade ^a   De Freitas, Luiz Antonio Rodrigues ^a,b   Lyra, Luiz Guilherme Costa ^b,c   Dos Santos, Ricardo Ribeiro ^a,c   Lyra, Andre Castro ^b,c   Soares, Milena Botelho Pereira ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^c HOSPITAL SÃO RAFAEL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hepatocytes; Liver diseases; Liver regeneration; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITOR; METALLOPROTEINASE; SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRICHOSTATIN A;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANGIOGENESIS; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL THERAPY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER REGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MONOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TISSUE THERAPY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77349109775     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368909X470522     Document Type: Review

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