Gas-permeable membranes and co-culture with fibroblasts enable high-density hepatocyte culture as multilayered liver tissues

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1146-1153

  Evenou, Fanny ^a,b,c   Hamon, Morgan ^a   Fujii, Teruo ^a,b   Takeuchi, Shoji ^a,b   Sakai, Yasuyuki ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Co culture; Hepatocyte; Liver tissue engineering; Multilayered culture; PDMS membrane

Indexed keywords

COCULTURE; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER TISSUE ENGINEERING; MULTI-LAYERED; PDMS MEMBRANE;

FIBROBLASTS; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROCHANNELS; NUTRIENTS; OXYGEN; SILICONES; STRAIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UREA;

CELL CULTURE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; FIBROBLASTS; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

RATTUS;

EID: 79961027871     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: 15206033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/btpr.626     Document Type: Article

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