Plasminogen mediates liver regeneration and angiogenesis after experimental partial hepatectomy

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1384-1390

  Drixler, T A ^a   Vogten, J M ^a   Gebbink, M F B G ^a   Carmeliet, P ^b   Voest, E E ^a   Borel Rinkes, I H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMINOGEN; UROKINASE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE DELETION; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER WEIGHT; MICROVASCULATURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; GENE DELETION; HEPATECTOMY; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROCIRCULATION; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; ORGAN SIZE; PLASMINOGEN; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0242469081     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.4275     Document Type: Article

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