Implanted adipose-derived stem cells attenuate small-for-size liver graft injury by secretion of VEGF in rats

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 620-629

  Ma, T ^a   Liu, H ^a   Chen, W ^a   Xia, X ^a   Bai, X ^a   Liang, L ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Liang, T ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Small for size graft; stem cell transplantation; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADIPOSE DERIVED STEM CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IN VITRO STUDY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT; LIVER INJURY; LIVER PROTECTION; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT; RECIPIENT; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84857653478     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2011.03870.x     Document Type: Article

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