Cultured hepatocytes adopt progenitor characteristics and display bipotent capacity to repopulate the liver

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 805-817

  Krause, Petra ^a   Unthan Fechner, Kirsten ^a   Probst, Irmelin ^a   Koenig, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Hepatocyte culture; Liver cell transplantation; Oval cells; Progenitor cells; Retrodifferentiation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; CD133 ANTIGEN; CONNEXIN 32; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 7; GROWTH FACTOR; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; RETRORSINE; VIMENTIN; CULTURE MEDIUM; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE TRANSPLANTATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; LIVER CELL CULTURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL; SUPERNATANT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENETICS; LIVER CELL; METABOLISM; PHARMACOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONNEXINS; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEPATOCYTES; KERATIN-18; KERATIN-19; KERATIN-7; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; LIVER; MALE; PEPTIDES; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; STEM CELLS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 84902506200     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/096368913X664856     Document Type: Article

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