The hepatic sinusoidal endothelial lining and colorectal liver metastases

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 821-825

  Braet, Filip ^a   Nagatsuma, Keissuke ^b   Saito, Masaya ^b   Soon, Lilian ^a   Wisse, Eddie ^a   Matsuura, Tomokazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Australia; CC531; Colorectal cancer; Correlative microscopy; Endothelial cells; Gaps; Hepatic metastasis; Interferon gamma; Kupffer cells; Macrophages; Modelling; Natural killer cells; Nitric oxide; Phagocytosis; Pit cells; Plugging; Stellate cells; X ray micro computed tomography

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER BLOOD VESSEL; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER SINUSOID; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33947538492     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v13.i6.821     Document Type: Editorial

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