Gene expression and synthesis of fibronectin isoforms in rat hepatic stellate cells. Comparison with liver parenchymal cells and skin fibroblasts

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 90-98

  Xu, Guoxiong ^a   Niki, Toshiro ^a   Virtanen, Ismo ^b   Rogiers, Vera ^a   De Bleser, Pieter ^a   Geerts, Albert ^a,c  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Fibronectin; Hepatic stellate cell; Liver; Liver fibrosis; Liver parenchymal cell; Skin fibroblast

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; FIBRONECTIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PROBE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SKIN FIBROBLAST; STELLATE CELL;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLASTS; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; ISOMERISM; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; PRECIPITIN TESTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN;

EID: 0030798512     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9896(199709)183:1<90::AID-PATH1105>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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