Transplantation of Amniotic Epithelial Cells into Fetal Rat Liver by In Utero Manipulation

It has been hoped that amniotic epithelial cells would be a gene carrier to neural and hepatic tissue, because of 1) the presence of neural and hepatic stem-like cells, 2) the ability to cryopreserve them, 3) long-term survival in the transplanted site, and 4) few ethical problems concerning procure...

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Main Authors: Nanae Takahashi, Shin Enosawa, Tasuku Mitani, Hua Lu, Seiichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Amemiya, Takashi Amano, Norio Sakuragawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2002-07-01
Series:Cell Transplantation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3727/000000002783985602