Transplantation of a fetal liver cell-loaded hyaluronic acid sponge onto the mesentery recovers a Wilson's disease model rat

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-288

  Katsuda, Takeshi ^a,b   Teratani, Takumi ^a   Ochiya, Takahiro ^a   Sakai, Yasuyuki ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fetal liver cell; heterotopic liver tissue engineering; hyaluronic acid sponge; intramesenteric transplantation; Wilson's disease

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BILIRUBIN; COPPER; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; HYALURONIC ACID;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER BLOOD LEVEL; FETUS LIVER CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; JAUNDICE; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LONG EVANS CINNAMON RAT; MALE; MESENTERY; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WILD TYPE; WILSON DISEASE;

ANIMALS; COPPER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEPATOCYTES; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; HYALURONIC ACID; JAUNDICE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; PORIFERA; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGOUTI; ANIMALIA; CINNAMOMUM VERUM; RATTUS;

EID: 77956421498     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: 17562651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvq063     Document Type: Article

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