TY - GEN AU - Sherief Musa Azab AU - Abdelrahman Zekri , AU - Haman Abdelhaleem , AU - Hosny Salama , TI - A comparative study between the infusion of non - expandea and expanded adult haematopoietic stem cells to patients with liver insufficiency / PY - 2008/// CY - Cairo : PB - Sherief Musa Azab , KW - Cell therapy KW - Haematopoietic stem cells KW - Peripheral blood stem cell Transplantation N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 ER -