Liver stem/progenitor cells: Their characteristics and regulatory mechanisms

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 231-239

  Tanaka, Minoru ^a   Itoh, Tohru ^a   Tanimizu, Naoki ^b   Miyajima, Atsushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

cytokine; development; differentiation; hepatocyte; regeneration

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; JAGGED1; MIDKINE; ONCOSTATIN M; PLEIOTROPHIN; SCATTER FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

BILE DUCT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CENTRAL VEIN; ENDODERM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FETUS LIVER; FIBROBLAST; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HERRING; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; KUPFFER CELL; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; LIVER CELL; LIVER DEVELOPMENT; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER STEM CELL; LIVER STRUCTURE; MESOTHELIUM CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PORTAL VEIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHORT SURVEY; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; LIVER; STEM CELLS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 79952298241     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: 17562651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvr001     Document Type: Short Survey

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