An improved digitonin-collagenase perfusion technique for the isolation of periportal and perivenous hepatocytes from a single rat liver: Physiological implications for lobular heterogeneity

Hepatology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1592-1599

  Tordjmann, Thierry ^a,c   Berthon, Brigitte ^a   Lardeux, Bernard ^b   Moreau, Alain ^b   Jacquemin, Edith ^a   Combettes, Laurent ^a   Feldmann, Gérard ^b   Claret, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; COLLAGENASE; DIGITONIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LIVER PERFUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030719397     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510260630     Document Type: Article

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