Evaluation of a hybrid artificial liver module based on a spheroid culture system of embryonic stem cell-derived hepatic cells

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 421-428

  Mizumoto, Hiroshi ^a   Hayashi, Shunsuke ^a   Matsumoto, Kinya ^a   Ikeda, Kaoru ^a   Kusumi, Tomoaki ^a   Inamori, Masakazu ^a   Nakazawa, Kohji ^b   Ijima, Hiroyuki ^a   Funatsu, Kazumori ^a   Kajiwara, Toshihisa ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KITAKYUSHU   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryonic stem (ES) cell; Hepatic differentiation; Hybrid artificial liver (HAL); Polyurethane foam (PUF); Spheroid; Three dimensional culture

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; POLYURETHAN FOAM;

AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIVER; CELL DENSITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EX VIVO STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FAILURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMMONIA; ANIMALS; BUTYRATES; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYURETHANES; SERUM ALBUMIN; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84859719307     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368911X605321     Document Type: Article

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