Characterization of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)-expressing hepatic stellate cells and myofibroblasts in thioacetamide (TAA)-induced rat liver injury

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 1159-1171

  Tennakoon, Anusha Hemamali ^a   Izawa, Takeshi ^a   Wijesundera, Kavindra Kumara ^a   Golbar, Hossain M ^a   Tanaka, Miyuu ^a   Ichikawa, Chisa ^a   Kuwamura, Mitsuru ^a   Yamate, Jyoji ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Hepatic stellate cells; Myofibroblasts; Rat liver; Stem cells; Thioacetamide

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DESMIN; GELATINASE A; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NESTIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR B; RAT ENDOTHELIAL CELL ANTIGEN 1; THIOACETAMIDE; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; RAT; STELLATE CELL;

RATTUS;

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; MYOFIBROBLASTS; RAT LIVER; STEM CELLS; THIOACETAMIDE;

ANIMALS; DRUG-INDUCED LIVER INJURY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MYOFIBROBLASTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THIOACETAMIDE;

EID: 84885854419     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: 16181433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2013.05.008     Document Type: Article

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