Liver precursor cells increase hepatic fibrosis induced by chronic carbon tetrachloride intoxication in rats

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-150

  Chobert, Marie Noële ^a,b   Couchie, Dominique ^a,b   Fourcot, Agnès ^b   Zafrani, Elie Serge ^a,b,c   Laperche, Yannick ^a,b   Mavier, Philippe ^b   Brouillet, Arthur ^a,b  

^a INSERM U955   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^c HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

epithelial mesenchymal transition; fibrosis; liver progenitor cells; TGF

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; AMINOTRANSFERASE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; MESSENGER RNA; N (2 FLUORENYL)ACETAMIDE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROGENESIS; HEPATITIS; INTOXICATION; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEM CELL;

2-ACETYLAMINOFLUORENE; ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, MYELOMONOCYTIC; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; KERATIN-19; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, EXPERIMENTAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEM CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84855220791     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: 15300307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2011.143     Document Type: Article

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