TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Nabil Mohamed Shawki AU - Hosny Mohamed Salama , AU - Mervat Mohamed Elansary , AU - Waleed Foad Fathallah , TI - Induced pluripotent stem cells and the potential : : Clinical application in liver disease / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Nabil Mohamed Shawki , KW - Embryonic stem cells KW - End- stage liver disease KW - Pluripotent stem cells N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Tropical Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - End- stage liver disease and its complications are one of the most important global health problems particularly in Egypt due to the highest prevalence of chronic hepatitis C. liver transplantation is the only curative treatment but with high rate of complications and donor organ shortage . Stem cells are pluripotent cells that have the capacity to differentiate into any of the many different types of cells thus providing a potentially unttlimited source of cells for medical and scientific purposes UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -