Novel strategies for liver therapy using stem cells

Gut

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-4

  Rashid, Tamir ^a   Takebe, Takanori ^b   Nakauchi, Hiromitsu ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL BUDDING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL QUALITY; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL THERAPY; LIVER DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; STEM CELL EXPANSION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER FAILURE; TRANSPLANTATION;

HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84919719545     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2014-307480     Document Type: Article

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