Distinct mechanism of small-for-size fatty liver graft injury - Wnt4 signaling activates hepatic stellate cells

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1178-1188

  Cheng, Q ^a   Ng, K T ^a   Fan, S T ^a   Lim, Z X ^a   Guo, D Y ^a   Liu, X B ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Poon, R T P ^a   Lo, C M ^a   Man, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Animal models; Graft survival; Hepatic steatosis; Hepatic stellate cells; Liver transplantation; Marginal graft

Indexed keywords

WNT4 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; FATTY LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER INJURY; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER SIZE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STELLATE CELL;

ANIMALS; FATTY LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UP-REGULATION; WNT PROTEINS;

EID: 77951249233     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03102.x     Document Type: Article

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