Apoptosis is activated in an early period after radiofrequency ablation of liver tissue

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 56, Issue 93, 2009, Pages 1095-1099

  Vanagas, Tomas ^a   Gulbinas, Antanas ^b   Sadauskiene, Ilona ^b   Dambrauskas, Zilvinas ^b   Pundzius, Juozas ^a   Barauskas, Giedrius ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE HOSPITAL   (Lithuania)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Ablation; Apoptosis, caspase 3; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CELL DAMAGE; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; ANIMAL; CATHETER ABLATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; SWINE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CATHETER ABLATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; SWINE;

EID: 70350500267     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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