Isolation, in vitro cultivation and characterisation of foetal liver cells

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 481, Issue , 2009, Pages 181-191

  Wu, Yue ^a   Shatapathy, Chetan C ^a   Minger, Stephen L ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clonal selection; Foetal liver tissue; In vitro culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934437028     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-201-4_15     Document Type: Article

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