Hepatocyte growth factor leads to recovery from alcohol-induced fatty liver in rats

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 313-320

  Tahara, Minoru ^a   Matsumoto, Kunio ^a   Nukiwa, Toshihiro ^b   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DIALYSIS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FATTY LIVER; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

EID: 0032927825     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI4433     Document Type: Article

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