Mohamed Elsayed Mahmoud <br/><br/>
Potential beneficial effects of verapamil on liver fibrosis in rats /  
 دراسة التأثير المحتمل لعقار فيراباميل على التليف الكبدى فى جرذان التجارب 
Mohamed Elsayed Mahmoud ; Supervised Nadia Ali Gouda , Amani Nabil Shafik , Mostafa Mahmoud Khodeir 
 - Cairo :   Mohamed Elsayed Mahmoud ,   2009 
 - 107 P. :   charts , facsimiles ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pharmacology 
<br/><br/> Activation of stellate cells is accompanied by a marked increase in proteins that are characteristic of contractile cells ( i.e. such as smooth muscle actin and smooth muscle myosins ) stellate cell contraction is important in the injured liver because it may contribute to the collapse and shrunken state of cirrhotic livers and because it also appears to play a role in portal hypertension 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Alanine aminotransferase Carbon tetrachloride Haptoglobin