A critical appraisal of the hemodynamic signal driving liver regeneration

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 397, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 579-590

  Abshagen, Kerstin ^a   Eipel, Christian ^a   Vollmar, Brigitte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood flow theory; Hepatic arterial buffer response; Liver regeneration; Microcirculation; Partial hepatectomy. Shear stress

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYSTATHIONINE BETA SYNTHASE; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA LYASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HEME OXYGENASE 1; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ARTERIAL HEPATIC BUFFER RESPONSE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER SINUSOID; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SINUSOIDAL ENDOTHELIAL CELL; SPLENECTOMY; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; LIVER REGENERATION; MICROCIRCULATION; PORTAL VEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 84863989276     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-012-0913-0     Document Type: Review

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