Hiroyuki Ogasawara, Akiko Inagaki, Ibrahim Fathi, Takehiro Imura, Hiroki Yamana, Yoshikatsu Saitoh, Muneyuki Matsumura, Kengo Fukuoka, Shigehito Miyagi, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Kazuo Ohashi, Michiaki Unno, Takashi Kamei, Masafumi Goto
Intraportal injection is regarded as the current standard procedure of hepatocyte transplantation (HTx). In islet transplantation, which shares many aspects with HTx, recent studies have clarified that instant blood-mediated inflammatory reaction (IBMIR), characterized by strong innate immune responses, can cause poor engraftment, so other transplant sites to avoid such a reaction have been established. Although IBMIR was reported to occur in HTx, few reports have evaluated alternative transplant sites for HTx...
January 2021: Cell Transplantation