2-Acetylaminofluorene Dose-Dependent Differentiation of Rat Oval Cells into Hepatocytes: Confocal and Electron Microscopic Studies

Hepatology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1353-1361

  Paku, Sándor ^a   Nagy, Peter ^a   Kopper, László ^a   Thorgeirsson, Snorri S ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ALPHA1 INTEGRIN; ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOKERATIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY OV6; N (2 FLUORENYL)ACETAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIVER CELL; LIVER INJURY; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVAL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEM CELL; UPREGULATION;

2-ACETYLAMINOFLUORENE; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BILE CANALICULI; CARCINOGENS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXINS; DESMIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, ROUGH; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 4; HEPATOCYTES; INTEGRIN ALPHA1; INTEGRIN ALPHA6; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOCHONDRIA; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 2342502028     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.20178     Document Type: Article

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