Not every cell is as it seems: A role for ductular epithelial cells in fibrosis?

Gut

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-2

  Powell, Elizabeth E ^a,b   Jonsson, Julie R ^a   Clouston, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALVASCULIN; CHOLINE; DNA; ETHIONINE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; APOPTOSIS; BILE DUCT; CELL AGING; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DAMAGE; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEUKOCYTE; LIVER CELL; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER REGENERATION; MYOFIBROBLAST; NOTE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; STEM CELL; TELOMERE; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

BILE DUCTS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS;

EID: 78651231874     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: 14683288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.2010.226365     Document Type: Note

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