Adenovirus-Mediated Overexpression of Follistatin Enlarges Intact Liver of Adult Rats

Hepatology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1107-1115

  Takabe, Kazuaki ^a   Wang, Lili ^a   Leal, Angela M O ^a   MacConell, Leigh A ^a   Wiater, Ezra ^a   Tomiya, Tomoaki ^b   Ohno, Akihiko ^b   Verma, Inder M ^a   Vale, Wylie ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; FOLLISTATIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BODY SIZE; CELL LYSATE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER SIZE; LIVER WEIGHT; MITOSIS INDEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0142244909     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2003.50483     Document Type: Article

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