Hepatic accumulation of Hedgehog-reactive progenitors increases with severity of fatty liver damage in mice

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1227-1239

  Fleig, Susanne V ^a   Choi, Steve S ^a   Yang, Liu ^a   Jung, Youngmi ^a   Omenetti, Alessia ^a   VanDongen, Hendrika M ^a   Huang, Jiawen ^a   Sicklick, Jason K ^b   Diehl, Anna Mae ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Epithelial mesenchymal interaction; Ethionine; Fatty liver; Hedgehog; Progenitor

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN FIBRIL; ETHIONINE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; LEPTIN; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FATTY LIVER; GENE TARGETING; HEPATIC DUCT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIVER ATROPHY; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; ETHIONINE; FATTY LIVER; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 6; HEPATOCYTES; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LEPTIN; LIGANDS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, OBESE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 36249016856     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.3700689     Document Type: Article

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