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Author:   Stephen Strom (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
ISBN:  

9781138038363

ISBN 10:   1138038369
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   02 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Overview of Human Hepatocyte Transplantation. Encapsulated hepatocyte therapy of acute liver failure. Bioartificial liver support for acute liver failure. Recellularized-bioengineered liver tissues for transplantation. Cellular therapies of acute liver failure and fibrosis. Improved liver function in patients with liver cirrhosis after autologous bone marrow cell infusion therapy. Treatment of end stage cirrhosis by enforced expression of Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4. The role of immune cells (or macrophages) in liver disease and regeneration. In vivo reprogramming of myofibroblasts with AAV vectors as a therapeutic strategy for liver fibrosis. Direct reprogramming of hepatic myofibroblasts into hepatocytes, in vivo, attenuates liver fibrosis. In utero stem cell transplantation and gene therapy: rationale, history, and recent advances toward clinical application. The emerging roles of microvesicles in liver disease and therapy. Amnion epithelial stem cell therapy of metabolic liver disease. Gene therapy for rare metabolic liver diseases. Gene editing technology for the therapy of rare liver diseases.

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Stephen Strom, Ph.D. is the Soederberg Professor, in the Cell Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author or co-author of over 200 published peer reviewed articles and dozens of invited book chapters.

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