Activation of alpha-smooth muscle actin-positive myofibroblast-like cells after chemotherapy with gemcitabine in a rat orthotopic pancreatic cancer model

Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 206-213

  Yamao, Jun ^a   Toyokawa, Hideyoshi ^a   Kim, Songtae ^a   Yamaki, So ^a   Satoi, Sohei ^a   Yanagimoto, Hiroaki ^a   Yamamoto, Tomohisa ^a   Hirooka, Satoshi ^a   Matsui, Yoichi ^a   Kwon, A Hon ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha smooth muscle actin; Chemotherapy; Myofibroblast like cell; Pancreatic cancer; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; CYCLINE; GEMCITABINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATIC STELLATE CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SURVIVAL TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEOXYCYTIDINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MYOFIBROBLASTS; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84879690580     PISSN: 18686974     EISSN: 18686982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00534-012-0576-9     Document Type: Article

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