In vivo generation of thick, vascularized hepatic tissue from collagen hydrogel-based hepatic units

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 653-659

  Zhao, Yunshan ^a   Xu, Yingxin ^a   Zhang, Bofeng ^a   Wu, Xin ^a   Xu, Fei ^a   Liang, Wentao ^a   Du, Xiaohui ^a   Li, Rong ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COLLAGEN; HYDROGELS; LIVER; MAINTENANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

ENGRAFTMENT; HEPATIC TISSUE; HEPATOCYTES; IN-VIVO; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER TISSUE; MATRIX; PRIMARY HEPATOCYTES; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS; TISSUE-ENGINEERED CONSTRUCTS; TYPE I COLLAGEN; VASCULATURE;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

RATTUS;

BROXURIDINE; COLLAGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYDROGEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; COLLAGEN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATOCYTES; HYDROGEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 77955007011     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2009.0053     Document Type: Article

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