Transplantation of green fluorescent hepatic stellate cells into rat livers

Cytotoxicity and biocompatibility evaluation of chitosan-beta glycerol phosphate-hydroxyethyl cellulose hydrogel on adult rat liver for cell-based therapeutic applications

“…Liver is a key site for many pathways and numerous metabolic inherited diseases have their origin in this organ (Nguyen and Ferry, 2004). Millions of patients worldwide suffer from end-stage liver pathologies, whose only curative therapy is orthotopic liver transplantation (Fontana et al, 2002;Nguyen and Ferry, 2004;Kamada et al, 2009). However, this method is associated with numerous problems, including a chronic shortage of donors, high cost, rejection and side effects for the donor (Ochiya et al, 2010;Piscaglia et al, 2010;Dianat et al, 2013).…”