A simplified 3D liver microsphere tissue culture model for hepatic cell signaling and drug-induced hepatotoxicity studies
Corrigendum in: /10.3892/ijmm.2023.5234
- Authors:
- Ying Zhu
- Qiong Shi
- Qi Peng
- Yue Gao
- Ting Yang
- Yu Cheng
- Hao Wang
- Yetao Luo
- Ailong Huang
- Tong‑Chuan He
- Jiaming Fan
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Affiliations: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Diagnostic Medicine, School of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, P.R. China, Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology for Infectious Diseases of The Ministry of Education of China, Institute for Viral Hepatitis, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400037, P.R. China, Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA - Published online on: August 21, 2019 https://doi.org/10.3892/ijmm.2019.4321
- Pages: 1653-1666
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Copyright: © Zhu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.
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