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Treatment of fulminant liver failure by transplantation of microencapsulated primary or immortalized xenogeneic hepatocytes
4 Oct 2005
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BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate in vitro and in vivo functions of isolated hepatocytes after immortalization, cryopreservation, encapsulation and xenotransplantation into mice with fulminant liver failure (FLF). METHODS: Rat and human hepatocytes were isolated from normal liver tissue by collagenase digestion. Human hepatocytes were immortalized using lentiviral vectors coding for SV 40 large T...
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