Spontaneous Cholangiofibrosis in Long-Evans Cinnamon Rats: A Rodent Model for Wilson's Disease

Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 156-161

  Schilsky, Michael L ^a   Quintana, Nelson ^b   Volenberg, Irene ^b   Kabishcher, Vsevolod ^a   Sternlieb, Irmin ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHOLANGITIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROSIS; GENE DELETION; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILSON DISEASE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; BILE DUCTS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CHOLANGITIS; COPPER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIBROSIS; HEPATOLENTICULAR DEGENERATION; LIVER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 0031920801     PISSN: 00236764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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