Hepatic stellate cell/myofibroblast subpopulations in fibrotic human and rat livers

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 200-209

  Cassiman, David ^a   Libbrecht, Louis ^b   Desmet, Valeer ^b   Denef, Carl ^a   Roskams, Tania ^b  

^a Laboratory of Cell Pharmacology   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alpha smooth muscle actin; Bile duct ligation; Carbon tetrachloride; Cirrhosis; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Hepatic stellate cell; Myofibroblast; Neural; Neural cell adhesion molecule; Neuroendocrine

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; DESMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUROTROPIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT LIGATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; MESENCHYME; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STELLATE CELL;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; FIBROBLASTS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0036166579     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(01)00260-4     Document Type: Article

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