Catheter-directed Intraportal Delivery of Endothelial Cell Therapy for Liver Regeneration: A Feasibility Study in a Large-Animal Model of Cirrhosis.
Lee KS, Santagostino SF, Li D, Ramjit A, Serrano K, Ginsberg MD, Ding BS, Rafii S, Madoff DC. Catheter-directed Intraportal Delivery of Endothelial Cell Therapy for Liver Regeneration: A Feasibility Study in a Large-Animal Model of Cirrhosis. Radiology 2017, 285: 114-123. PMID: 28498793, DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2017162617.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEndothelial cell therapyMean proliferation indexLiver endothelial cellsCell therapyEndothelial cellsIntraportal deliveryProliferation indexPorcine modelCatheter-directed deliveryTreatment of cirrhosisInduction of cirrhosisMasson's trichrome stainingUnpaired t-testLarge animal studiesAutologous cell therapyHepatic specimensHepatobiliary injuryTranscatheter infusionHepatic arteryFluorescence-activated cellPathologic examinationHepatic fibrosisDuctal damageLiver fibrosisSurrogate marker