Reproducible subcutaneous transplantation of cell sheets into recipient mice

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1053-1059

  Obokata, Haruko ^a,b   Yamato, Masayuki ^b   Tsuneda, Satoshi ^a   Okano, Teruo ^a,b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Women s Medical University Waseda University Joint Institution for Advanced Biomedical Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; HISTOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUBCUTANEOUS CELL SHEET TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE REGENERATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; RATS; REGENERATION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79959885765     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.356     Document Type: Article

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