Artificial human tissues from cord and cord blood stem cells for multi-organ regenerative medicine: Viable alternatives to animal in vitro toxicology

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 183-192

  Jurga, Marcin ^a   Forraz, Nico ^a   McGuckin, Colin P ^a  

^a Cell Therapy Research Institute   (France)

Author keywords

Cord blood; Human artificial brain tissue; Human artificial liver tissue; Personalised medicine; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS, TISSUES AND CELLS; CADAVER; CELL THERAPY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; STEM CELL; TOXICITY TESTING; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77953750364     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119291003800210     Document Type: Note

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