Morphological characterisation of portal myofibroblasts and hepatic stellate cells in the normal dog liver

Comparative Hepatology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ijzer, Jooske ^a   Roskams, Tania ^b   Molenbeek, Ronald F ^a   Ultee, Ton ^a   Penning, Louis C ^c   Rothuizen, Jan ^c   van den Ingh, Ted S G A M ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d TCCI Consultancy BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; DESMIN; FORMALDEHYDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FIBROGENESIS; FROZEN SECTION; HEPATIC VEIN; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SINUSOID; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; SPECIES COMPARISON; STELLATE CELL; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33845249753     PISSN: 14765926     EISSN: 14765926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-5926-5-7     Document Type: Article

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