Role of c-kit receptor tyrosine kinase-mediated signal transduction in proliferation of bile epithelial cells in young rats after ligation of bile duct: A study using Ws/Ws c-kit mutant rats

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 86-92

  Satake, Makoto ^a   Shimano, Koichi ^a   Yamamoto, Takashi ^b   Okaya, Atsuhito ^a   Iwasaki, Teruo ^a   Kakihana, Michiko ^a   Fujimoto, Jiro ^a   Terada, Nobuyuki ^a   Tsujimura, Tohru ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bile epithelial cells; Bile stasis; c kit receptor tyrosine kinase; Liver regeneration; Oval cells; Ws Ws rats

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT LIGATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGATION; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0037635196     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(03)00149-1     Document Type: Article

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