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Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 211-219 , February 2010

Intramuscular transplantation of engineered hepatic tissue constructs corrects acute and chronic liver failure in mice

Nalu Navarro-Alvarez
- Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
- Present address: Bone Marrow Transplantation Section, Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical, Boston, MA 02129, USA.
Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez
- Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
- Present address: Department of Surgery, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Yong Chen
- Marion Bessin Liver Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Ullmann 523, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Jose Caballero-Corbalan
- Departments of Oncology, Radiology & Clinical Immunology, Division of Clinical Immunology, The Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 85, Sweden
Wael Hassan
- Department of Pathophysiology-Periodontal Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Satoru Kobayashi
- 3-D Matrix Japan, Ltd., 3-2-4 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083, Japan
Yoshitaka Kondo
- Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Masaya Iwamuro
- Department of Internal Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Kazuhide Yamamoto
- Department of Internal Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Eisaku Kondo
- Department of Pathology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Noriaki Tanaka
- Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
Ira J. Fox
- Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Naoya Kobayashi
- Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
- Corresponding author. Address: Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Transplant and Surgical Oncology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. Tel./fax: +81 86 235 7485.