Sodium alginate, which has excellent biocompatibility, was evaluated as a scaffold material for hepatic tissue engineering. It is found that hepatocyte cells attached and proliferated well on films made from sodium alginate. Furthermore, the attached hepatocytes had normal functions, such as synthesizing albumin which was detected by immunohistochemical staining for albumin.
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