Liver

The potential of tissue engineering

Porous foams

Lactose-silk conjugate

  • Chemical modification of solubilized silk fibroin (SF) with lactose bearing the galactose residue
  • Attachment of hepatocytes onto conjugate-coated dishes showed an 8-fold increase
  • After 2 days of culture hepatocytes on the conjugate-coated dishes formed monolayer islands with a slightly dispersed morphology
  • Hepatocytes cultured on collagen-coated dishes were uniformly spread flat

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