The protective effect of taurine against hepatic damage in a model of liver disease and hepatic stellate cells

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 643, Issue , 2009, Pages 293-303

  Miyazaki, Teruo ^a   Bouscarel, Bernard ^b   Ikegami, Tadashi ^b   Honda, Akira ^b   Matsuzaki, Yasushi ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; HYDROXYPROLINE; LIPID HYDROPEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TAURINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIBROGENESIS; LIVER; LIVER CELL; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STELLATE CELL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DISEASE MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA PRIMERS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TAURINE;

EID: 63149167981     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-75681-3_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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