Sulfur-containing amino acids attenuate the development of liver fibrosis in rats through down-regulation of stellate cell activation

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 917-925

  Matsui, Hiroko ^a,b   Ikeda, Kazuo ^a   Nakajima, Yuji ^a   Horikawa, Saburo ^c   Imanishi, Yukihiro ^a   Kawada, Norifumi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Minophagen Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; BDL, bile duct ligation; BrdU, 5 bromo 2 deoxyuridine; Collagen; L Cysteine; L Methionine; Liver fibrosis; Methionine adenosyltransferase; Platelet derived growth factor BB; Stellate cells

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; BROXURIDINE; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; CYSTEINE; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METHIONINE; METHIONINE ADENOSYLTRANSFERASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN P44; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; THIOACETAMIDE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; COMMON BILE DUCT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; EVALUATION; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STELLATE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACIDS, SULFUR; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLLAGEN; CYSTEINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; FIBROBLASTS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; METHIONINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THIOACETAMIDE;

EID: 2442712438     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(04)00065-0     Document Type: Article

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