The incidence rate of chronic hepatopathy in Taiwan is high, which afflicts the patients by progressively developing irreversible cirrhosis. Hepatic fibrosis is the intermediate and crucial stage of this process, characterized by reversibility. If treated properly in this stage, cirrhosis can be successfully prevented. In the liver, activated stellate cells are the key mediators of fibrosis. Transforming growth factor-
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0906105-174613 |
| Date | 06 September 2005 |
| Creators | Lu, Cheng-Nan |
| Contributors | Sheng-Teng Huang, Jiin-Tsuey Cheng, Chih-Rong Shyr |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0906105-174613 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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