Gastroenterology
Volume 130, Issue 4 , Pages 1317-1323 , April 2006

Sustained Engraftment and Tissue Enzyme Activity After Liver Cell Transplantation for Argininosuccinate Lyase Deficiency

  • Xavier Stéphenne

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’hépatologie Pédiatrique et Transplantation Cellulaire, Département GYPE, Service de Pédiatrie, Université Catholique de Louvain & Cliniques St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Mustapha Najimi

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’hépatologie Pédiatrique et Transplantation Cellulaire, Département GYPE, Service de Pédiatrie, Université Catholique de Louvain & Cliniques St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Catherine Sibille

      Affiliations

    • Centre de Cytogénétique, Université Catholique de Louvain & Cliniques St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Marie–Cécile Nassogne

      Affiliations

    • Service de Neurologie Pédiatrique, Université Catholique de Louvain & Cliniques St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Françoise Smets

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’hépatologie Pédiatrique et Transplantation Cellulaire, Département GYPE, Service de Pédiatrie, Université Catholique de Louvain & Cliniques St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Etienne M. Sokal

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’hépatologie Pédiatrique et Transplantation Cellulaire, Département GYPE, Service de Pédiatrie, Université Catholique de Louvain & Cliniques St Luc, Brussels, Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Etienne M. Sokal, MD, PhD, Paediatric Hepatology and Liver Transplantation, Université Catholique de Louvain, Cliniques St Luc, 10 av. Hippocrate, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium. fax: (32) 2-764-8909.

Received 7 October 2005 ,Accepted 21 December 2005.

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 The Liver Cell Transplantation Program is supported by the DGTRE, région wallonne (Grant WALEO/HEPATERA). The Cell Cryopreservation Program is supported by a Grant-Télévie-Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique.

PII: S0016-5085(06)00009-6

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.01.008

Gastroenterology
Volume 130, Issue 4 , Pages 1317-1323 , April 2006

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