Oval cell proliferation in cirrhosis in rats. An experimental study

Hepatology Research

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 755-764

  Tsamandas, Athanassios C ^a   Antonacopoulou, Anna ^a   Kalogeropoulou, Christine ^a   Tsota, Irene ^a   Zabakis, Peter ^a   Giannopoulou, Efstathia ^a   Liava, Anna ^a   Tzelepi, Vassiliki ^a   Tepetes, Konstantinos ^b   Petsas, Theodore ^a   Kardamakis, Dimitrios ^a   Kalofonos, Haralabos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b University of Thessaly School of Medicine   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbon tetrachloride; Cirrhosis; Liver fibrosis; Oval cells; Rats; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CYTOKERATIN 19; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVAL CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 34447296683     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2007.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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