Open AccessCRITICAL PRESERVATION INJURY IN RAT FATTY LIVER IS TO HEPATOCYTES, NOT SINUSOIDAL LINING CELLS1
Author(s) -
Charu Taneja,
Lauriston M. Prescott,
Baburao Koneru
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.45
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1534-6080
pISSN - 0041-1337
DOI - 10.1097/00007890-199801270-00004
Subject(s) - liver injury , hepatocyte , fatty liver , chemistry , medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , biochemistry , disease , in vitro
Fatty livers are more prone to primary nonfunction after transplantation. We hypothesized that sinusoidal lining cells (SLCs) in fatty livers of obese Zucker rats are more susceptible to ischemia/reperfusion injury than in normal livers.