Lymph vessel expansion and function in the development of hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 169-175

  Vollmar, Brigitte ^a   Wolf, Beate ^a   Siegmund, Sören ^a   Katsen, Alice D ^a   Menger, Michael D ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SINUSOID; LYMPH FLOW; LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; MACROMOLECULE; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; FIBROSIS; KINETICS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030785842     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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