Article
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...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic
- Biopsy, Needle
- Cells, Cultured
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Culture Media
- Cytological Techniques
- Epithelium
- Female
- Hepatocyte Growth Factor
- Humans
- Infant
- Intermediate Filament Proteins
- Liver Diseases
- Liver Transplantation