Hepatic progenitor cell-mediated regeneration and fibrosis: Chicken or egg?

Hepatology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1424-1426

  Clouston, Andrew D ^a,b,d   Jonsson, Julie R ^a   Powell, Elizabeth E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; CYTOKERATIN 19; LYMPHOTOXIN BETA; MESSENGER RNA; SCATTER FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

BILE DUCT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; EDITORIAL; FIBROGENESIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER REGENERATION; MESENCHYME; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; ITO CELL; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER REGENERATION;

EID: 66149124443     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22893     Document Type: Editorial

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