Mast cell subpopulations in chronic inflammatory hepatobiliary diseases

Liver

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 152-156

  Matsunaga, Yoshiko ^a   Terada, Tadashi ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcoholic liver disease; Chronic hepatitis; Hepatolithiasis; Immunohistochemistry; Mast cells; Morphometry; Primary biliary cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; TRYPTASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS; BILE DUCT STONE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FIBROGENESIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAST CELL; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; STROMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHYMASES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HEPATITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MAST CELLS; MIDDLE AGED; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRYPTASES;

EID: 0034048797     PISSN: 01069543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0676.2000.020002152.x     Document Type: Article

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