Laparoscopy-Assisted Creation of a Liver Failure Model in Pigs

We created a hepatic failure pig model that was suitable for the assessment of cell therapies, such as hepatocyte transplantation and bioartificial livers, using a laparoscopic surgical technique. In our model, all of three hepatic arteries were resected, 5, 7.5, or 10 ml of carbon tetrachloride (CC...

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Main Authors: Takeshi Yuasa, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Jorge D. Rivas-Carrillo, Yong Chen, Nalú Navarro-Alvarez, Alejandro Soto-Guiterrez, Hirofumi Noguchi, Shinichi Matsumoto, Noriaki Tanaka, Naoya Kobayashi M.D., Ph.D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2008-01-01
Series:Cell Transplantation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3727/000000008783906973