Hepatocyte transplantation: State of the art and strategies for overcoming existing hurdles** This work was supported in part by grants, DK 46057 (to JRC), DK 39137 (to NRC) and DK P30-41296 (Liver Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine).

Over three decades of research in experimental animals and several clinical trials have brought us to the threshold of hepatocyte transplantation for the treatment of acute and chronic liver failure, and inherited metabolic disorders. However, more extensive clinical studies and routine clinical app...

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Main Authors: Sung-W Lee, MD, Xia Wang, Namita Roy Chowdhury, Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2004-04-01
Series:Annals of Hepatology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268119321088