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Directly acting drugs prostacyclin or nitroglycerine and endothelin receptor blocker bosentan improve cell engraftment in rodent liver†‡

  1. Ralf Bahde1,2,
  2. Sorabh Kapoor1,
  3. Sriram Bandi1,
  4. Kuldeep K. Bhargava3,
  5. Christopher J. Palestro3,
  6. Sanjeev Gupta1,4,§,*

Article first published online: 7 JAN 2013

DOI: 10.1002/hep.26005

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Hepatology

Hepatology

Volume 57, Issue 1, pages 320–330, January 2013

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Bahde, R., Kapoor, S., Bandi, S., Bhargava, K. K., Palestro, C. J. and Gupta, S. (2013), Directly acting drugs prostacyclin or nitroglycerine and endothelin receptor blocker bosentan improve cell engraftment in rodent liver. Hepatology, 57: 320–330. doi: 10.1002/hep.26005

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

  2. 2

    Department of Visceral and General Surgery, University Hospital of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

  3. 3

    Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, North Shore-LIJ Health System, New Hyde Park, NY

  4. 4

    Department of Pathology, Marion Bessin Liver Research Center, Diabetes Center, Cancer Center, Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, and Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY

  1. §

    fax: 718-430-8975

*Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Ullmann Bldg., Rm. 625, Bronx, NY 10461

  1. †

    Potential conflict of interest: Nothing to report.

  2. ‡

    Supported in part by NIH grants R01 DK071111, R01 DK088561, and P30-DK41296. R.B. received a postdoctoral fellowship from German Research Foundation (DFG).

  3. §

    fax: 718-430-8975

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 7 JAN 2013
  2. Article first published online: 7 JAN 2013
  3. Accepted manuscript online: 16 AUG 2012 06:08AM EST
  4. Manuscript Accepted: 23 JUL 2012
  5. Manuscript Received: 18 MAY 2012

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