Quantification of the intrahepatic biliary tree during human fetal development

Anatomical Record

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 297-302

  Costa, Andréa Monte Alto ^a   Pegado, Claudia Schwartz ^b   Pôrto, Luís Cristóvão ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bile duct; Cytokeratin 19; Embryology; Liver development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH RATE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KERATINS; MALE;

EID: 0031806118     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(199807)251:3<297::AID-AR4>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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