Metabolic control through hepatocyte and adipose tissue cross-talk in a multicompartmental modular bioreactor

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 17, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1635-1642

  Guzzardi, Maria Angela ^a,b   Domenici, Claudio ^b   Ahluwalia, Arti ^b,c  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE; CROSSTALK; FATTY ACIDS; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; UREA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALBUMIN SECRETION; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CULTURE SYSTEMS; FREE FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE CONCENTRATION; HEPATIC FUNCTION; HEPATOCYTE FUNCTIONS; HEPATOCYTES; IN-VITRO; METABOLIC CONTROL; METABOLIC REGULATIONS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; RAT HEPATOCYTES; SIGNALING MOLECULES; UREA PRODUCTION; UREA SYNTHESIS;

TISSUE;

RATTUS;

ALBUMINOID; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; UREA;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOREACTOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER CELL; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RAT; WISTAR RAT;

ADIPOCYTES; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FATTY ACIDS; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; HEPATOCYTES; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UREA;

EID: 79957583037     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2010.0541     Document Type: Article

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