In situ expansion of engineered human liver tissue in a mouse model of chronic liver disease

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 399, 2017, Pages

  Stevens, Kelly R ^a,b,c   Scull, Margaret A ^d   Ramanan, Vyas ^a,b   Fortin, Chelsea L ^a,b,c   Chaturvedi, Ritika R ^e   Knouse, Kristin A ^a,b,f   Xiao, Jing W ^d   Fung, Canny ^d   Mirabella, Teodelinda ^g   Chen, Amanda X ^a,b   McCue, Margaret G ^b   Yang, Michael T ^h   Fleming, Heather E ^a,b   Chung, Kwanghun ^a   De Jong, Ype P ^d,i   Chen, Christopher S ^e,g   Rice, Charles M ^d   Bhatia, Sangeeta N ^a,b,j,k  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Innolign Biomedical   (United States)

ⁱ WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^j Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^k HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LIVER PROTEIN; ALBUMINOID; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMETHACRYLATE HYDROGEL; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL COMPONENT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROGEL; LIVER CELL; LIVER INJURY; LIVER SEED GRAFT; LIVER STRUCTURE; LIVER TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECRETION; STROMA CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE EXPANSION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER DISEASE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TISSUE SCAFFOLD;

ALBUMINS; ANIMALS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; HYDROGEL, POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMETHACRYLATE; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 85025444300     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aah5505     Document Type: Article

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