Glycine pretreatment ameliorates liver injury after partial hepatectomy in the rat

Journal of Investigative Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-20

  Benko, Tamas ^a   Frede, Stilla ^b   Gu, Yanli ^b   Best, Jan ^b   Baba, Hideo Andreas ^b   Schlaak, Jörg Friedrich ^b   De Groot, Herbert ^b   Fandrey, Joachim ^b   Rauen, Ursula ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

tocopherol; Glycine; HIF 1 ; Liver resection; Living donor liver transplantation; Silibinin

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GLYCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME RELEASE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RAT;

ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; GLYCINE; HEPATECTOMY; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREANESTHETIC MEDICATION; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILYMARIN; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 77949566007     PISSN: 08941939     EISSN: 15210553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08941930903469466     Document Type: Article

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