The role of leptin in progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Hepatology Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-154

  Ikejima, Kenichi ^a   Okumura, Kyoko ^a   Lang, Tie ^a   Honda, Hajime ^a   Abe, Wataru ^a   Yamashina, Shunhei ^a   Enomoto, Nobuyuki ^a   Takei, Yoshiyuki ^a   Sato, Nobuhiro ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic sinusoidal cells; Leptin; Non alchoholic steatohepatitis (NASH); Platelet derived growth factor (PDGF); Transforming growth factor (TGF)

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROGENESIS; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SINUSOID; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STELLATE CELL; UPREGULATION;

EID: 29144492714     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hepres.2005.09.024     Document Type: Article

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