Close correlation of liver stiffness with collagen deposition and presence of myofibroblasts in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Hepatology Research

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 897-903

  Mori, Mami ^a   Fujii, Hideki ^a   Ogawa, Tomohiro ^a   Kobayashi, Sawako ^a   Iwai, Shuji ^a   Morikawa, Hiroyasu ^a   Enomoto, Masaru ^a   Tamori, Akihiro ^a   Sawada, Ayumi ^b   Takeda, Setsuko ^b   Kawada, Norifumi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Liver fibrosis; Morphometry; Necroinflammation; Steatohepatitis; Stellate cell

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN; HYALURONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAGEN DEPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RIGIDITY; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSIENT ELASTOGRAPHY;

EID: 80052221607     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: 1872034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1872-034X.2011.00842.x     Document Type: Article

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