Destruction of Kupffer cells increases survival and reduces graft injury after transplantation of fatty livers from ethanol-treated rats

Liver Transplantation and Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 383-387

  Zhong, Z ^a   Connor, H ^a   Mason, R P ^a   Qu, W ^a   Stachlewitz, R F ^a   Gao, W ^a   Lemasters, J J ^a   Thurman, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GADOLINIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EXPLANT; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; KUPFFER CELL; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LIVER PRESERVATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0029831047     PISSN: 10743022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.500020509     Document Type: Article

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