Treatment with leucine stimulates the production of hepatocyte growth factor in vivo

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 322, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 772-777

  Tomiya, Tomoaki ^a   Inoue, Yukiko ^a   Yanase, Mikio ^a   Arai, Masahiro ^a   Ikeda, Hitoshi ^a   Tejima, Kazuaki ^a   Nagashima, Kayo ^a   Nishikawa, Takako ^a   Watanabe, Naoko ^a   Omata, Masao ^a   Fujiwara, Kenji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Branched chain amino acids; Hepatic stellate cells; Hepatocyte growth factor; Leucine

Indexed keywords

ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; SCATTER FACTOR; SERUM ALBUMIN; VALINE;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIET RESTRICTION; FOOD INTAKE; LIVER LEVEL; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; UPREGULATION;

EID: 4444222699     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.07.191     Document Type: Article

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