The development of a novel in vitro model of human liver for the study of disease pathogenesis

The development of systems for the long term in vitro culture of functional liver tissue is a major research goal. The central limitation of experimental systems to date has been the early de-differentiation of primary hepatocytes in cultures. Several factors including cell-cell interaction, cell-ma...

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Main Author: Chen, Liqiong
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11020/