Accumulation of platelets in the liver may be an important contributory factor to thrombocytopenia and liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 526-534

  Kondo, Reiichiro ^a,b   Yano, Hirohisa ^a   Nakashima, Osamu ^b   Tanikawa, Ken ^a   Nomura, Yoriko ^a,b   Kage, Masayoshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic stellate cells; PDGFR ; Platelet; Sinusoidal endothelial cells

Indexed keywords

PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER RESECTION; MALE; MESENCHYME CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STELLATE CELL; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIROLOGY;

AGED; BLOOD PLATELETS; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 84886457520     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: 14355922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-012-0656-2     Document Type: Article

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