Regenerative medicine: Knocking on the door to successful hepatocyte transplantation

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 277-278

  Forbes, Stuart J ^a   Alison, Malcolm R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NANOG;

ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER REGENERATION; NANOG GENE; NONHUMAN; OCT4 GENE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL EXPANSION; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MALE; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE;

EID: 84900413099     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2014.44     Document Type: Article

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