The holy grail of hepatocyte culturing and therapeutic use

Strategies in Regenerative Medicine: Integrating Biology with Materials Design

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 283-320

  Nussler, Andreas K ^a   Nussler, Natascha C ^b   Merk, Vera ^b   Brulport, Marc ^c,d   Schormann, Wiebke ^c,d   Yao, Ping ^b   Hengstler, Jan G ^c,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-74660-9_9     Document Type: Chapter

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