Storage of lipid droplets in and production of extracellular matrix by hepatic stellate cells (vitamin A-storing cells) in Long-Evans Cinnamon-like colored (LEC) rats

Anatomical Record

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 338-348

  Imai, Katsuyuki ^a   Sato, Mitsuru ^a   Kojima, Naosuke ^a   Miura, Mitsutaka ^a   Sato, Takeya ^a   Sugiyama, Toshihiro ^a   Enomoto, Katsuhiko ^a   Senoo, Haruki ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fat storing cell; Hepatic fibrosis; Hepatic stellate cell; Long Evans cinnamon like colored (LEC) rat; Vitamin A storing cell

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; COLLAGEN FIBER; COPPER; EOSIN; FAT DROPLET; HEMATOXYLIN; RETINOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STELLATE CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTINS; ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; COPPER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIPID METABOLISM; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEC; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; RATS, WISTAR; VITAMIN A;

ANIMALIA; CINNAMOMUM VERUM; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0034177603     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0185(20000401)258:4<338::AID-AR2>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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