Class VI intermediate filament protein nestin is induced during activation of rat hepatic stellate cells

Hepatology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 520-527

  Niki, Toshiro ^a   Pekny, Milos ^b   Hellemans, Karine ^a   De Bleser, Pieter ^a   Van Den Berg, Kit ^a   Vaeyens, Freya ^a   Quartier, Erik ^a   Schuit, Frans ^a   Geerts, Albert ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FIBROSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STELLATE CELL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CELLS, CULTURED; DESMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0032986367     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510290232     Document Type: Article

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