The contribution of megakaryocytes to liver fibrosis

Gut

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1565-

  Thachil, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; COLLAGEN; CYTOKINE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; THROMBIN; THROMBOPOIETIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACUTE MEGAKARYOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOWN SYNDROME; ENDOTHELIUM; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; EXTRAMEDULLARY HEMATOPOIESIS; FIBROBLAST; GAUCHER DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HEMOGLOBINOPATHY; HEPATITIS C; LETTER; LIVER FIBROSIS; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSIENT MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; WOUND HEALING;

HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MEGAKARYOCYTES; PLATELET ACTIVATION; THROMBIN;

EID: 70350244430     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2008.176503     Document Type: Letter

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