Wholesale hepatocytic differentiation in the rat from ductular oval cells, the progeny of biliary stem cells

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 343-352

  Alison, Malcolm ^a   Golding, Matthew ^a   Lalani, El Nasir ^a   Nagy, Peter ^b   Thorgeirsson, Snorri ^b   Sarraf, Catherine ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

acetylaminofluorene; albumin; cytokeratins; liver regeneration; oval cells; vimentin; foetoprotien

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CYTOCHROME P450; MESSENGER RNA; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BILE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL;

EID: 0031051487     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(97)80051-7     Document Type: Article

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