Functional heterogeneity of cholangiocytes

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 227-240

  Marzioni, M Marco ^a   Glaser, Shannon S ^a   Francis, Heather ^a   Phinizy, Jo Lynne ^a   LeSage, Gene ^a   Alpini, Gianfranco ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ductal secretion; Intrahepatic biliary epithelium; Liver injury; Proliferation; Secretin

Indexed keywords

1 NAPHTHYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONE; TAUROLITHOCHOLIC ACID; TOXIN;

APOPTOSIS; BILE DUCT; BILE SECRETION; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CHOLANGIOCYTE; CHOLESTATIC HEPATITIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; HEPATIC DUCT; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER CELL; LIVER INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; RATS; RECEPTORS, SOMATOSTATIN; SECRETIN;

EID: 0036698246     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-34501     Document Type: Review

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