Morphogenetic events in mixed cultures of rat hepatocytes and nonparenchymal cells maintained in biological matrices in the presence of hepatocyte growth factor and epidermal growth factor

Hepatology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 90-100

  Michalopoulos, George K ^a   Bowen, William C ^a   Zajac, Valerie F ^a   Beer Stolz, Donna ^a   Watkins, Simon ^a   Kostrubsky, Vsevolod ^a   Strom, Steven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; MATRIGEL; MESSENGER RNA; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CULTURE; MALE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; DNA PROBES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; LAMININ; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEOGLYCANS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032899212     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510290149     Document Type: Article

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