Connective tissue growth factor is directly related to liver fibrosis

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 43, 2002, Pages 133-135

  Hayashi, N ^a   Kakimuma, T ^a   Soma, Y ^a   Grotendorst, G R ^a   Tamaki, K ^a   Harada, M ^a   Igarashi, A ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CTGF; In situ hybridization; Liver fibrosis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036215109     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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