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A comparative study between the infusion of non - expandea and expanded adult haematopoietic stem cells to patients with liver insufficiency /

Sherief Musa Azab

A comparative study between the infusion of non - expandea and expanded adult haematopoietic stem cells to patients with liver insufficiency / دراسة مقارنة بين حقن الخلايا الجذعية البالغة المكونة لخلايا الدم المكثرة وغير المكثرة فى مرضى الفشل الكلوى Sherief Musa Azab ; Supervised Hosny Salama , Haman Abdelhaleem , Abdelrahman Zekri - Cairo : Sherief Musa Azab , 2008 - 220 P. : charts , facsimiles ; 25cm

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine

The worldwide shortage of donor livers has prompted the search for alternative cell therapies for patients suffering from endstage liver disease including the transplantation of stem / progenitor cells several potential sources have been identified of hepatic stem / progenitor cells exhibiting differentiation towards the hepatic lineage in vitro and hepatic parenchymal repopulation with liver - specific metabolic activity



Cell therapy Haematopoietic stem cells Peripheral blood stem cell Transplantation