Attenuation of small-for-size liver graft injury by FTY720: Significance of cell survival Akt signaling pathway

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1399-1407

  Zhao, Yi ^a,b   Man, Kwan ^a   Lo, Chung Mau ^a   Ng, Kevin T ^a   Li, Xian Liang ^a   Sun, Chris K ^a   Lee, Terence K ^a   Dai, Xian Wei ^b   Fan, Sheung Tat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Akt survival pathway; FTY720; Liver transplantation; Small for size graft

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 7; CASPASE 9; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; FINGOLIMOD; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN KINASE B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER INJURY; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; PROPYLENE GLYCOLS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPHINGOSINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 4344581956     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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