Expression of extracellular matrix genes in cultured hepatic oval cells: An origin of hepatic stellate cells through transforming growth factor beta?

Liver International

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 575-584

  Wang, Ping ^a,b   Liu, Tianhui ^a   Cong, Min ^a   Wu, Xiaoning ^a   Bai, Yanfeng ^a   Yin, Chenghong ^a   An, Wei ^b   Wang, Baoen ^a   Jia, Jidong ^a   You, Hong ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Epithelial; Hepatic oval cells; Hepatic stellate cells; Mesenchymal transition

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; CELL MARKER; COLLAGEN; DESMIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UVOMORULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; STELLATE CELL; UPREGULATION;

ALBUMINS; ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; BILE DUCTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CADHERINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINE DEFICIENCY; DESMIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHIONINE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 62749124853     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2009.01992.x     Document Type: Article

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