Genetic Characteristics of the Human Hepatic Stellate Cell Line LX-2

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Weiskirchen, Ralf ^a   Weimer, Jörg ^b   Meurer, Steffen K ^a   Kron, Anja ^c   Seipel, Barbara ^c   Vater, Inga ^d   Arnold, Norbert ^b   Siebert, Reiner ^d   Xu, Lieming ^e   Friedman, Scott L ^f   Bergmann, Carsten ^a,c,g  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UKSH Campus Kiel ^*  (Germany)

^c Center for Human Genetics   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 4; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; DESMIN; ENDOGLIN; FIBRONECTIN; RECOMBINANT TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VIMENTIN; VIRUS T ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELL GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAPHASE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECTRAL KARYOTYPING; STELLATE CELL;

CELL LINE; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HUMANS; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPING;

EID: 84885153238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075692     Document Type: Article

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