Effect of the inducer of interleukin-6 (ME3738) on rat liver treated with ethanol

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 31, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages

  Fukumura, Atsushi ^a   Tsutsumi, Mikihiro ^a,b   Tsuchishima, Mutsumi ^b   Hayashi, Nobuhiko ^a   Fukura, Masayuki ^a   Yano, Hirokazu ^a   Ozaki, Kazuaki ^a   Takase, Shujiro ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcoholic Fatty Liver; Interleukin 6; ME3738

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE ISOENZYME 1; CHOLESTEROL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; SOYASAPOGENOL B; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIETARY INTAKE; FATTY LIVER; FEEDING; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIQUID; LIVER; LIVER CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STAINING; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CHOLESTEROL; FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; OLEANOLIC ACID; RATS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

MUS; RATTUS;

EID: 33846299934     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2006.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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