Blood-flow route from the hepatic artery and portal vein to the sinusoid in normal human liver observed by confocal laser scanning microscopy

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 255-261

  Oikawa, Hiroki ^a   Masuda, Tomoyuki ^a   Yashima, Akiko ^a   Satodate, Ryoichi ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

smooth muscle actin; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Immunofluorescent histochemistry; Microcirculation in human liver

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; LYSOZYME; PROTEIN ANTIBODY;

ARTERIOLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER SINUSOID; MICROCIRCULATION; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PORTAL VEIN;

EID: 0032975602     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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