Omentum facilitates liver regeneration

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1057-1064

  Singh, Ashok K ^a,b   Pancholi, Nishit ^b   Patel, Jilpa ^b   Litbarg, Natalia O ^d   Gudehithlu, Krishnamurthy P ^a,b   Sethupathi, Perianna ^b,d   Kraus, Mark ^a   Dunea, George ^a,b,c   Arruda, Jose A L ^a,c  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokeratin; Foreign body; Growth factors; Oval cell; Progenitor cells

Indexed keywords

CYTOKERATIN 19; DEXTRAN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BODY WEIGHT; CELL EXPANSION; CELL FUSION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER INJURY; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OMENTUM; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE GROWTH; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INJURY; KINETICS; LIVER; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ALPHA-FETOPROTEINS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DEXTRANS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MALE; OMENTUM; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 65549133889     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.15.1057     Document Type: Article

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