Mast cell density, hepatic stellate cell activation and TGF-β1 transcripts in the aging Sprague-Dawley rat during early acute liver injury

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 173-178

  Grizzi, F ^a,b   Franceschini, B ^a,b   Gagliano, N ^c   Moscheni, C ^c   Annoni, G ^d   Vergani, C ^d   Hermonat, P L ^e   Chiriva Internati, M ^f   Dioguardi, N ^a,b  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b Fondazione Michele Rodriguez   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^f TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CCl4 intoxication; Collagen synthesis; Hepatic stellate cells; Inflammation; Liver; Mast cells; Myofibroblasts; Transforming growth factor b1

Indexed keywords

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; COLLAGEN; CONGO RED; MESSENGER RNA; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL INFILTRATION; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; HEPATITIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTOXICATION; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; MAST CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAINING; STELLATE CELL;

AGING; ANIMALS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CELL COUNT; COLLAGEN; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; MALE; MAST CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037348635     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01926230309803     Document Type: Article

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