The Hepatocyte Review

It is thirty years since the technique of high-yield preparation of isolated hepatocytes, by collagenase perfusion of the liver, was published. The original method described by Berry and Friend has undergone many minor modifications by other workers, and the two-step procedure introduced by Seglen i...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Berry, M. N. (Editor), Edwards, Anthony M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Methods and Biology
  • I. Isolated hepatocytes: forty years on
  • 2. Isolation and culture of human hepatocytes
  • 3. Isolation and culture of porcine hepatocytes
  • 4. Preparation and properties of isolated hepatocytes from sheep
  • 5. Elasmobranch hepatocytes
  • 6. Isolation and cultivation of teleost hepatocytes
  • 7. Conditions for growth of hepatocytes in culture
  • 8. Engineering of a miniature 3-D hepatic cell plate culture model
  • 9. Freezing and hypothermic storage of porcine hepatocytes
  • 10. Storage of isolated hepatocytes
  • 11. Hepatocyte swelling: techniques and effects on metabolism
  • 12. Permeabilisation of hepatocytes with ?-toxin
  • 13. Perifused immobilised hepatocytes for metabolic studies
  • 14. Small hepatocytes in primary cultures
  • 2. Reviews of Hepatocyte Biology
  • 15. Mechanisms of hepatocyte growth regulation by hormones and growth factors
  • 16. Proliferative response and metabolic effects of growth factors in human hepatocytes
  • 17. Growth control and cell cycle progression in cultured hepatocytes
  • 18. Mechanisms of active cell death in isolated hepatocytes
  • 19. The protective role of nitric oxide in hepatocytes during responses to inflammatory mediators and induction of apoptosis
  • 20. Short-term regulation by insulin of glucose metabolism in isolated and cultured hepatocytes
  • 21. Studies on mitochondrial-cytoplasmic interactions in isolated hepatocytes from fasted rats
  • 3. Applications: Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • 22. The importance of hepatocytes in drug metabolism studies: an industrial perspective
  • 23. Human hepatocytes as an experimental system for the evaluation of xenobiotics
  • 24. Constitutive expression of cytochromes P450 in rat hepatocyte culture
  • 25. Optimising conditions for induction of cytochrome P450 in primary hepatocytecultures
  • 26. The use of isolated hepatocytes to study the mechanisms of action of environmental contaminants
  • 27. The use of isolated hepatocytes for the study of xenobiotic hepatotoxicity
  • 4. Therapeutic Applications
  • 28. Human hepatocyte transplantation: biology and therapy
  • 29. Ex vivo hepatocyte-directed gene therapy
  • 30. A review of bioartificial liver development from an artificial organ engineering perspective
  • 31. Development and testing of a bioartificial liver
  • 32. The Berlin extracorporeal liver support system
  • 33. The bioartificial liver of the Academic Medical Center at Amsterdam
  • 34. Performance of a flat membrane bioreactor utilizing porcine hepatocytes cultured in an extracellular matrix