Overexpression of endothelin-1 in bile duct ligated rats: Correlation with activation of hepatic stellate cells and portal pressure

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 38-45

  Tièche, Sabine ^a   De Gottardi, Andrea ^a   Kappeler, Andreas ^a   Shaw, Sidney ^a   Sägesser, Hans ^a   Zimmermann, Arthur ^a   Reichen, Jürg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatic stellate cells; Morphometry; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT LIGATION; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROGENESIS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STELLATE CELL;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; CHOLESTASIS; ENDOTHELIN-1; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0035135261     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(00)00031-3     Document Type: Article

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