Hepatic stellate cells promote immunotolerance following orthotopic liver transplantation in rats via induction of T cell apoptosis and regulation of Th2/Th3-like cell cytokine production

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 165-169

  Jiang, Zhijun ^a   Chen, Ying ^a   Feng, Xiaonin ^a   Jiang, Jianwen ^a   Chen, Tianxiang ^a   Xie, Haiyang ^a   Zhou, Lin ^a   Zheng, Shusen ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Fas FasL; Hepatic stellate cells; Immunotolerance; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIBODY; FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; LIPOCORTIN 5; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STELLATE CELL; TH2 CELL; TH3 CELL;

EID: 84869435123     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2012.801     Document Type: Article

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