The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in liver fibrosis: Here today, gone tomorrow?

Hepatology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 737-740

  Wells, Rebecca G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CALVASCULIN; COLLAGEN; UVOMORULIN;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EDITORIAL; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; LIVER FIBROSIS; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MESODERM;

EID: 77950612565     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23529     Document Type: Editorial

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