Foetal hepatocyte transplantation in a vascularized AV-Loop transplantation model in the rat

Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 267-274

  Fiegel, H C ^a   Pryymachuk, G ^b   Rath, S ^c   Bleiziffer, O ^b   Beier, J P ^b   Bruns, H ^a   Kluth, D ^a   Metzger, R ^a   Horch, R E ^b   Till, H ^a   Kneser, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

AV loop; Foetal transplantation; Hepatic tissue engineering; Liver cell transplantation; Neo vascularization

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; LEWIS RAT; LIVER CELL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FETUS; FIBRIN; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

RATTUS;

EID: 77951940080     PISSN: 15821838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2008.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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