Restoration of hepatic mast cells and expression of a different mast cell protease phenotype in regenerating rat liver after 70%-hepatectomy

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 587-595

  Zweifel, Martin ^a,e   Breu, Karin ^a   Matozan, Katja ^b   Renner, Eberhard ^d   Welle, Monika ^c   Schaffner, Thomas ^b   Clavien, Pierre Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^e LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

C kit; Kit ligand; Liver regeneration; Mast cell; Rat mast cell protease; Stem cell factor

Indexed keywords

CHYMASE; CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; MAST CELL PROTEASE 2; PROTEINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; MAST CELL; MESENCHYME CELL; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATOCYTES; LIGANDS; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MAST CELLS; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 30544432740     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1711.2005.01368.x     Document Type: Article

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