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Tissue engineering of human biliary epithelial cells on polyglycolic acid/polycaprolactone scaffolds maintains long-term phenotypic stability.
Tissue engineering - 1 Oct 2003
Barralet Jake E, Wallace Laine L, Strain Alastair J
Abstract excerpt
The biliary tree is the target of damage in a number of important liver diseases. Although human biliary epithelial cells (hBECs) can be maintained in vitro for up to 8 weeks, using double-collagen gels, which offer a substantial improvement compared with conventional tissue culture plastic, such gels are unstable and, being only semisolid, they do not lend themselves readily to routine analysis. In this study we...
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