Decreased microsomal triglyceride transfer protein activity contributes to initiation of alcoholic liver steatosis in rats

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 157-162

  Sugimoto, Taizo ^a   Yamashita, Shizuya ^a   Ishigami, Masato ^a   Sakai, Naohiko ^a   Hirano, Ken Ichi ^a   Tahara, Minoru ^b   Matsumoto, Kunio ^b   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^b   Matsuzawa, Yuji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Fatty liver; Hepatocyte growth factor; Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; GENE PRODUCT; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE; MICROSOMAL TRIGLYCERIDE TRANSFER PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT SCATTER FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FATTY LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID STORAGE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER MICROSOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS B; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHOLESTEROL; COENZYME A LIGASES; ETHANOL; FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRIGLYCERIDES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036169936     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(01)00263-X     Document Type: Article

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