Human-Scale Whole-Organ Bioengineering for Liver Transplantation: A Regenerative Medicine Approach

Human-Scale Whole-Organ Bioengineering for Liver Transplantation: A Regenerative Medicine Approach

At this time, the only definitive treatment of hepatic failure is liver transplantation. However, transplantation has been limited by the severely limited supply of human donor livers. Alternatively, a regenerative medicine approach has been recently proposed in rodents that describe the production...

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Main Authors: Hiroshi Yagi, Ken Fukumitsu, Kazumasa Fukuda, Minoru Kitago, Masahiro Shinoda, Hideaki Obara, Osamu Itano, Shigeyuki Kawachi, Minoru Tanabe, Gina M. Coudriet, Jon D. Piganelli, Thomas W. Gilbert, Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez M.D., Ph.D., Yuko Kitagawa M.D., Ph.D., FACS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-02-01
Series:Cell Transplantation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3727/096368912X654939

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https://doi.org/10.3727/096368912X654939

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