Taurine improves graft survival after experimental liver transplantation

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 950-959

  Schemmer, Peter ^a   Liang, Rui ^a   Kincius, Marius ^a   Flechtenmacher, Christa ^a   Bunzendahl, Hartwig ^b   Gutt, Carsten N ^a   Mehrabi, Arianeb ^a   Gebhard, Martha Maria ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Kraus, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; SODIUM; TAURINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FLOW RATE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; KUPFFER CELL; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER ISCHEMIA; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; REPERFUSION; REPERFUSION INJURY;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENZYMES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; KUPFFER CELLS; LEUKOCYTES; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; NECROSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPERFUSION; TAURINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 23744462145     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.20501     Document Type: Article

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