Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Emerging concepts and pitfalls in hepatic stellate cell research

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 527-535

  Cassiman, David ^a   Roskams, Tania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL; LIVER SINUSOID; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STELLATE CELL; ANIMAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; GASTROENTEROLOGY; LIVER;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; LIVER;

EID: 0036784417     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(02)00263-5     Document Type: Review

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