Histological alterations in the livers of Cx43-deficient mice submitted to a cholestasis model

Life Sciences

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 380-384

  Teixeira, Tarso Felipe ^a   da Silva, Tereza Cristina ^a   Fukumasu, Heidge ^a   de Lima, Cynthia Esteves ^a   Lúcia Zaidan Dagli, Maria ^a   Guerra, José Luiz ^a  

^a Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biliary duct hyperplasia; Cholestasis; Connexin 43; Gap junction; Knockout mice

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT LIGATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTASIS; CONNEXIN 43 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HEPATIC VEIN; HISTOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER STRUCTURE; LIVER VEIN; MORPHOMETRICS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHOLESTASIS; CONNEXIN 43; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LIVER; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN;

MUS;

EID: 34447532023     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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