Does estrogen contribute to the hepatic regeneration following portal branch ligation in rats?

American Journal of Physiology - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Volumn 292, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Kawai, Toru ^a   Yokoyama, Yukihiro ^a,b   Kawai, Satoru ^a   Yokoyama, Shinya ^a   Oda, Koji ^a   Nagasaka, Tetsuro ^a   Nagino, Masato ^a   Chaudry, Irshad H ^b   Nimura, Yuji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Estrogen receptor; Mesenteric flow; Nonligated lobe; Portal vein embolization

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FULVESTRANT; MESSENGER RNA; MICROSPHERE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FLUORESCENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER; LIVER CELL NUCLEUS; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY; MESENTERIC VEIN; MESENTERY BLOOD FLOW; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; UPREGULATION; VEIN LIGATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTES; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIGATION; LIVER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PORTAL VEIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33847014110     PISSN: 01931857     EISSN: 15221547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00374.2006     Document Type: Article

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