The virtuosity of hepatic stellate cells

Gastroenterology

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1244-1246

  Friedman, S L ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; NESTIN; RAPAMYCIN; RETINOL; SCLEROPROTEIN; TACROLIMUS;

EDITORIAL; FIBROGENESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER FIBROSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STELLATE CELL;

EID: 0032717217     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5085(99)70413-0     Document Type: Editorial

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