Roles of vascular endothelial growth factor and endothelial nitric oxide synthase during revascularization and regeneration after partial hepatectomy in a rat model

Surgery Today

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1622-1629

  Yoshida, Daisuke ^a   Akahoshi, Tomohiko ^a   Kawanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Yamaguchi, Shohei ^a   Kinjo, Nao ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Tomikawa, Morimasa ^a   Shirabe, Ken ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a   Hashizume, Makoto ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase; Liver regeneration; Nitric oxide; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

CYCLINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME INHIBITION; LABELING INDEX; LIVER CELL; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER SINUSOID; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVASCULARIZATION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATOCYTES; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84855184941     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-010-4484-9     Document Type: Article

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