Transplantation of human amnion epithelial cells reduces hepatic fibrosis in immunocompetent CCl 4-treated mice

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1157-1168

  Manuelpillai, Ursula ^a   Tchongue, Jorge ^a   Lourensz, Dinushka ^a   Vaghjiani, Vijesh ^a   Samuel, Chrishan S ^b   Liu, Alison ^a   Williams, Elizabeth D ^a   Sievert, William ^a,c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amnion epithelial cells; Cellular therapy; Hepatic inflammation; Liver fibrosis; Xenotransplantation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; COLLAGEN; GELATINASE A; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AMNION CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COLLAGEN DEGRADATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGRAFTMENT; EPITHELIUM CELL; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLATE CELL;

AMNION; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE POISONING; CELL SEPARATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREGNANCY; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 78649884208     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368910X504496     Document Type: Article

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