Recent advances in 2D and 3D in vitro systems using primary hepatocytes, alternative hepatocyte sources and non-parenchymal liver cells and their use in investigating mechanisms of hepatotoxicity, cell signaling and ADME

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Patrício Godoy1, Nicola J. Hewitt2, Ute Albrecht3, Melvin E. Andersen4, Nariman Ansari5, Sudin Bhattacharya4, Johannes G. Bode3, Jennifer Bolleyn6, Christoph Borner7, J Böttger8, Albert Braeuning9, Robert A. Budinsky10, Britta Burkhardt11, Neil R. Cameron12, Giovanni Camussi13, Chong-Su Cho14, Yun-Jaie Choi14, J. Craig Rowlands10, Uta Dahmen15, Georg Damm16, Olaf Dirsch17, M. Teresa Donato18, Jian Dong4, Steven Dooley19, Dirk Drasdo20, Rowena Eakins21, Karine Sá Ferreira7, Valentina Fonsato13, Joanna Fraczek6, Rolf Gebhardt8, Andrew Gibson21, Matthias Glanemann16, Christopher E. Goldring21, María José Gómez‐Lechón22, Geny M. M. Groothuis23, Lena Gustavsson24, Christelle Guyot25, David Hallifax26, Seddik Hammad27, Adam S. Hayward28, Dieter Häussinger3, Claus Hellerbrand29, Philip Hewitt30, Stefan Hoehme8, Hermann‐Georg Holzhütter16, J B Houston26, Jens Hrach31, Kiyomi Ito32, Hartmut Jaeschke33, Verena Keitel3, Jens Kelm34, B. Kevin Park21, Claus Kordes3, Gerd A. Kullak‐Ublick25, Edward L. LeCluyse4, Peng Lü4, Jennifer Luebke‐Wheeler35, Anna Lutz7, Daniel J. Maltman36, Madlen Matz‐Soja37, Patrick D. McMullen4, Irmgard Merfort38, Simon Messner34, Christoph Meyer19, Jessica Mwinyi25, Dean J. Naisbitt21, Andreas K. Nüssler11, Peter Olinga23, Francesco Pampaloni5, Jingbo Pi4, Linda Pluta4, Stefan Przyborski36, Anup Ramachandran33, Vera Rogiers6, Celine Schelcher39, Kathrin Schmich38, Michael Schwarz9, Bijay Singh14, Ernst H. K. Stelzer5, Bruno Stieger25, Regina Stöber1, Yuichi Sugiyama40, Ciro Tetta41, Wolfgang E. Thasler42, Tamara Vanhaecke6, Mathieu Vinken6, Thomas S. Weiß29, A Widera1, Courtney G. Woods4, Jinghai J. Xu43, Kathy Yarborough4, Jan G. Hengstler1
1Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors [Dortmund]
2Auteur indépendant
3Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University [Düsseldorf]
4The Hamner Institutes For Health Sciences
5Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
6Vrije Universiteit Brussel,
7University of Freiburg [Freiburg]
8Universität Leipzig
9Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology andToxicology [Tübingen]
10The Dow Chemical Company
11Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
12Department of Chemistry [Durham, UK]
13Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin
14Seoul National University, Seoul
15Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery [Jena]
16Charité - UniversitätsMedizin = Charité - University Hospital [Berlin]
17Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena [Jena, Germany]
18UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA
19Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University
20Nonlinear Analysis for Biology and Geophysical flows
21University of Liverpool,
22Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en el Área temática de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas
23University of Groningen, Groningen
24Skane University Hospital [Lund]
25University hospital of Zurich [Zurich]
26University of Manchester, Manchester
27South Valley University [Qena]
28Durham University
29University Hospital Regensburg
30Merck [Darmstadt]
31FORIM GmbH [Mannheim]
32Musashino University [Tokyo]
33University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA
34InSphero [Schlieren]
35Stem Cell Technologies [Madison]
36NETPark Incubator [Sedgefield]
37Institut für Biochemie [Leipzig]
38Department of Pharmaceutical Biology and Biotechnology [Freiburg]
39Ludwig Maximilian University [Munich] = Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
40Yokohama Biopharmaceutical Research and Development Center [Yokohama]
41Fresenius Medical Care [Bad Homburg]
42University-Hospital Munich-Großhadern [München]
43Merck & Co., Inc

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