Improving the techniques for human hepatocyte transplantation: Report from a consensus meeting in London

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Puppi, Juliana ^a   Strom, Stephen C ^b   Hughes, Robin D ^a   Bansal, Sanjay ^a   Castell, Jose V ^c,d   Dagher, Ibrahim ^e,f   Ellis, Ewa C S ^g   Nowak, Greg ^g   Ericzon, Bo Goran ^g   Fox, Ira J ^b   Gómez Lechón, José M ^d   Guha, Chandan ^h   Gupta, Sanjeev ^h   Mitry, Ragai R ^a   Ohashi, Kazuo ⁱ   Ott, Michael ^j   Reid, Lola M ^k   Roy Chowdhury, Jayanta ^h   Sokal, Etienne ^l   Weber, Anne ^f   Dhawan, Anil ^a   more..

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^e HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

^f BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j INSTITUTE OF INFECTION IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^l CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

more..

Author keywords

Engraftment; Hepatocyte transplantation; Metabolic liver disease; Radiation; Stem cell

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LOSS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENGRAFTMENT; HEPATITIS; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVIEW; STEM CELL; UNITED KINGDOM; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER REGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863258782     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368911X566208     Document Type: Review

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