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Characterization of biliary epithelial cells isolated from needle biopsies of human liver in the presence of hepatocyte growth factor.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Feb 1995
Strain A J, Wallace L, Joplin R, Daikuhara Y, Ishii T, Kelly D A, Neuberger J M
Abstract excerpt
Current methods for the isolation of intrahepatic biliary epithelial cells from human liver rely upon relatively large segments of tissue, thereby limiting studies to cells isolated from patients with end-stage disease. To investigate a greater range of diseases and those at an earlier stage, we have developed a method to isolate biliary epithelial cells from biopsy-sized fragments of human liver. Tissue explants...
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