Centrolobular liver fibrosis in the hypercholesterolemic rabbit

Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 4 I, 1996, Pages 939-946

  Buyssens, Norbert ^a   Kockx, Marc M ^a   Herman, Arnold G ^a   Lazou, Jean Marc ^b   Van Den Berg, Kit ^b   Wisse, Eddie ^b   Geerts, Albert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; FIBRONECTIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATHEROMATOSIS; CHOLESTEROL LIVER LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0029839306     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.1996.v24.pm0008855202     Document Type: Article

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