Canals of Hearing: Recent Insights and Current Knowledge

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-48

  Saxena, Romil ^a,b   Theise, Neil ^c  

^a University Hospital UH 3465   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Canals of Hering; Methotrexate; Primary biliary cirrhosis; Stem cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 7; METHOTREXATE;

BILE; BILE DUCT; BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; CANAL OF HERING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STRUCTURE; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 1942487273     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-823100     Document Type: Review

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