Current situation of animal models for orthotopic liver transplantation / 医学研究生学报

ABSTRACT

Liver transplantation,as a new treatment for terminal-stage liver diseases,has made remarkable strides in the past decades.Animal models play an essential part in liver transplantation research,but differ from one another and have different limits to be used in imitating human clinical conditions.Therefore,it is the base for the development of liver transplantation to build and improve animal models by correctly selecting and utilizing different characteristics of different animals.