Liver fibrosis: Searching for cell model answers

Liver International

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 434-439

  Gutiérrez Ruiz, Ma Concepción ^a   Gómez Quiroz, Luis Enrique ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Fibrosis; Hepatic stellate cells

Indexed keywords

SCLEROPROTEIN;

CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL TYPE; DRUG RESEARCH; FIBROGENESIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RODENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STELLATE CELL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 34047241724     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2007.01469.x     Document Type: Review

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