Changes in serum levels of hepatocyte growth factor in patients undergoing adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1769-1770

  Eguchi, Susumu ^a   Yanaga, Katsuhiko ^a   Okudaira, Sadayuki ^a   Sugiyama, Nozomu ^a   Miyamoto, Shungo ^a   Furui, Junichiro ^a   Kanematsu, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGENIC AGENT; SCATTER FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; LIVING DONOR LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0346732905     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TP.0000093466.21749.E3     Document Type: Article

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