Liver tissue engineering based on aggregate assembly: Efficient formation of endothelialized rat hepatocyte aggregates and their immobilization with biodegradable fibres

Biofabrication

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Pang, Y ^a   Montagne, K ^b   Shinohara, M ^a   Komori, K ^a   Sakai, Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE METHODS; HEPATIC FUNCTION; HEPATOCYTES; HIGH DENSITY; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; IN-VITRO; LIVER TISSUE ENGINEERING; MICRO WELLS; MODULAR ASSEMBLY; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PERFUSION BIOREACTOR; PERFUSION CULTURES; POLY L LACTIC ACID; RAT HEPATOCYTES; SPHERICAL MORPHOLOGIES;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FIBERS; LACTIC ACID; MICROCHANNELS; NUTRIENTS; OXYGEN SUPPLY; RATS; TISSUE; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AGGREGATES;

RATTUS;

ALBUMINOID; BIOMATERIAL; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZED CELL; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER; LIVER CELL; METHODOLOGY; RAT; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLS, IMMOBILIZED; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; LIVER; RATS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84868566322     PISSN: 17585082     EISSN: 17585090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1758-5082/4/4/045004     Document Type: Article

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