Journal of Hepatology
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

      Affiliations

    • 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.
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  • Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez

      Affiliations

    • 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.
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  • Yong Chen

      Affiliations

    • Marion Bessin Liver Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Ullmann 523, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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  • Jose Caballero-Corbalan

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Oncology, Radiology & Clinical Immunology, Division of Clinical Immunology, The Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 85, Sweden
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  • Wael Hassan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathophysiology-Periodontal Science, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Satoru Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • 3-D Matrix Japan, Ltd., 3-2-4 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083, Japan
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  • Yoshitaka Kondo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Masaya Iwamuro

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Kazuhide Yamamoto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Eisaku Kondo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Noriaki Tanaka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
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  • Ira J. Fox

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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  • Naoya Kobayashi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Okayama 700-8558, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding 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.

Received 1 February 2009 ,Revised 16 July 2009 ,Accepted 20 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2009.11.019

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 52, Issue 2 , Pages 211-219 , February 2010

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