Embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells as a model for liver disease

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 4-5, 2009, Pages 377-398

  Yagi, Hiroshi ^b   Tafaleng, Edgar ^a   Nagaya, Masaki ^a   Hansel, Marc C ^a,c   Strom, Stephen C ^a,c   Fox, Ira J ^a   Soto Gutierrez, Alejandro ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decellularized liver; Embryonic stem cell; Extracellular matrix and differentiation; Induced pluripotent stem cell

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; STEM CELLS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

DECELLULARIZED LIVERS; DIFFERENTIATED CELLS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; HUMAN DISEASE MODELS; INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS; THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY; TISSUE-ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES;

CELL ENGINEERING;

CELL AGGREGATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL TYPE; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; LIVER DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

IPS;

EID: 77952150625     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v37.i4-5.40     Document Type: Review

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