Differential expression of PTEN in hepatic tissue and hepatic stellate cells during rat liver fibrosis and its reversal

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1424-1430

  Zheng, Libo ^a   Chen, Xiuli ^a,b   Guo, Jinbo ^a   Sun, Huicong ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Shih, David Q ^c   Zhang, Xiaolan ^a  

^a HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fifth Hospital of Shijiazhuang   (China)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Hepatic fibrosis; Hepatic stellate cells; Phosphatase and tensin homology deleted on chromosome ten; Proliferation; Reversal

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; OLIVE OIL; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FIBROGENESIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STELLATE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PTEN PHOSPHOHYDROLASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84869426437     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2012.1151     Document Type: Article

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