Nicotinamide induces apoptosis and reduces collagen I and pro-inflammatory cytokines expression in rat hepatic stellate cells

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1226-1234

  Traister, Alexandra ^a   Breitman, Igal ^a   Bar Lev, Ella ^a   Zvibel, Isabel ^a   Harel, Avikam ^b   Halpern, Zamir ^a   Oren, Ran ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Dan Children Hospital   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cytokines; Hepatic stellate cells; Nicotinamide

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CASPASE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; CYCLIN D1; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MACROPHAGE CHEMOTACTIC FACTOR; NICOTINAMIDE; PROTEIN P53; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROGENESIS; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAINING; STELLATE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL CYCLE; CELL LINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN TYPE I; CYCLIN D1; CYTOKINES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; HEPATOCYTES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NIACINAMIDE; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASES; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 27144510604     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520510023341     Document Type: Article

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