The fibrosis of chronic pancreatitis: New insights into the role of pancreatic stellate cells

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2711-2722

  Apte, Minoti ^a   Pirola, Romano ^a   Wilson, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCLEROPROTEIN;

CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; CYTOLOGY; FIBROGENESIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS INJURY; PANCREATIC STELLATE CELL; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; RATS;

EID: 80054031046     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: 15577716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2011.4079     Document Type: Review

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