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