Liver Damage using Suicide Genes
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Liver Damage using Suicide Genes
Liver regeneration from the facultative hepatic stem cells, the oval cells, takes place in situations in which liver regeneration from pre-existing hepatocytes is prevented. Different models have been used to stimulate oval cell response. Many of them involve the use of carcinogenic agents with or without partial hepatectomy. In this study we show that adenovirus-mediated gene transfer of the s...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Pathology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0002-9440
DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)64565-8