The plastic liver: Differentiated cells, stem cells, every cell?

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5099-5102

  Hindley, Christopher J ^a,b,c   Mastrogiovanni, Gianmarco ^a,b   Huch, Meritxell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TYPE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER REGENERATION; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; RAT; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; LIVER; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84915745169     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI78372     Document Type: Note

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