TY - BOOK AU - Mohamed Elsayed Mahmoud AU - Amani Nabil Shafik , AU - Mostafa Mahmoud Khodeir , AU - Nadia Ali Gouda , TI - Potential beneficial effects of verapamil on liver fibrosis in rats / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Mohamed Elsayed Mahmoud , KW - Alanine aminotransferase KW - Carbon tetrachloride KW - Haptoglobin N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pharmacology; Issued also as CD N2 - 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 UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -