Development of intralobular bile ductules after spontaneous hepatitis in Long-Evans mutant rats

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 43-53

  Betto, Hisashi ^a   Kaneda, Kenji ^a   Yamamoto, Takatsugu ^a   Kojima, Akiko ^a   Sakurai, Masami ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BILE FLOW; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEPATITIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CARCINOGENESIS; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BILE DUCTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATINS; LIVER; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; ORGANELLES; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS;

EID: 0029941680     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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