Liver support strategies: Cutting-edge technologies

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 166-176

  Struecker, Benjamin ^a   Raschzok, Nathanael ^a   Sauer, Igor M ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOARTIFICIAL LIVER; BIOENGINEERING; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECELLULARIZATION; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECELLULARIZATION; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ORGAN PRINTING; ALBUMIN DIALYSIS; BIOPRINTING; INDUCED ORGANOGENESIS; LIFE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER SUPPORT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER, ARTIFICIAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84895919852     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2013.204     Document Type: Review

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