The endothelin/nitric oxide balance determines small-for-size liver injury after reduced-size rat liver transplantation

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 447, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 731-741

  Palmes, Daniel ^a   Minin, Evgeny ^a   Budny, Tymoteusz ^a   Uhlmann, Dirk ^b   Armann, Barbara ^b   Stratmann, Udo ^a   Herbst, Hermann ^a   Spiegel, Hans Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endothelin; Endothelin A receptor; Liver transplantation; Nitric oxide; Small for size syndrome

Indexed keywords

DARUSENTAN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ENDOTHELIN; ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SMALL FOR SIZE LIVER INJURY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; ENDOTHELINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PHENYLPROPIONATES; PYRIMIDINES; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECEPTOR, ENDOTHELIN A; TYROSINE;

EID: 27644467690     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-005-0006-3     Document Type: Article

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