Alpha-SMA expression in hepatic stellate cells and quantitative analysis of hepatic fibrosis in cirrhosis and in recurrent chronic hepatitis after liver transplantation

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 349-356

  Carpino, G ^a   Morini, S ^b   Ginanni Corradini, S ^a   Franchitto, A ^a   Merli, M ^a   Siciliano, M ^a   Gentili, F ^a   Onetti Muda, A ^a   Berloco, P ^a   Rossi, M ^a   Attili, A F ^a   Gaudio, E ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hepatic stellate cells; Liver cirrhosis; Liver fibrosis; Post transplant recurrent HCV hepatitis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN ANTIBODY; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; PEROXIDASE; ACTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; CELL ACTIVATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; STELLATE CELL; CYTOLOGY; LIVER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ACTINS; ADULT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 24044447311     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2004.11.009     Document Type: Article

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