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Principles of therapeutic liver repopulation

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Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease

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Liver repopulation by transplanted hepatocytes is a promising approach for many inborn errors of metabolism. In this review, examples of liver repopulation in animals and the implications of these models for clinical cell transplantation will be discussed.

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Grompe, M. Principles of therapeutic liver repopulation. J Inherit Metab Dis 29, 421–425 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10545-006-0311-2

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