Hepatic Stellate Cells: The Only Cells Involved in Liver Fibrogenesis? A Dogma Challenged

Gastroenterology

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2059-2062

  Desmoulière, Alexis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMOGES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE;

CELL ACTIVATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROGENESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 34247615495     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2007.03.075     Document Type: Editorial

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