Human binucleate hepatocytes: Are they a defence during chronic liver diseases?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 258-261

  Grizzi, Fabio ^a   Chiriva Internati, Maurizio ^b  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIUM; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SALIVARY GLAND;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LIVER DISEASES;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 34249305204     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.12.029     Document Type: Article

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