The role of the spleen, platelets, and plasma hepatocyte growth factor activity on hepatic regeneration in rats

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-16

  Tomikawa, Morimasa ^a   Hashizume, Makoto ^a   Higashi, Hidefumi ^a   Ohta, Masayuki ^a   Sugimachi, Keizo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DNA; SATIGREL; SCATTER FACTOR;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; LABELING INDEX; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPLENECTOMY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD PLATELETS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPLENECTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030042562     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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