Effect of alendronate sodium on the expression of mesenchymal-epithelial transition markers in mice with liver fibrosis

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 247-252

  Bi, Wan Rong ^a   Jin, Cai Xia ^b   Xu, Guo Tong ^b   Yang, Chang Qing ^b  

^a TONGJI HOSPITAL OF TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alendronate sodium; Bone morphogenetic protein 7; Epithelial mesenchymal transition; Liver fibrosis; Transforming growth factor 1

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALENDRONIC ACID; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CALVASCULIN; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; UVOMORULIN;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER FIBROSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84869479568     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2012.759     Document Type: Article

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