Inhibitory effect of Y-27632, a ROCK inhibitor, on progression of rat liver fibrosis in association with inactivation of hepatic stellate cells

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 474-481

  Murata, Toru ^a   Arii, Shigeki ^b   Nakamura, Toshio ^a   Mori, Akira ^a   Kaido, Toshimi ^a   Furuyama, Hiroaki ^a   Furumoto, Katsuyoshi ^a   Nakao, Teizo ^a   Isobe, Naoki ^a   Imamura, Masayuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic stellate cells; Liver fibrosis; Na+ Ca2+ exchanger; ROCK

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ALPHA ACTIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; COLLAGEN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROXYPROLINE; MESSENGER RNA; RHO KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLOOD LEVEL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE; STELLATE CELL; TISSUE LEVEL;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0034793893     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(01)00169-6     Document Type: Article

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