Journal of Hepatology
Volume 49, Issue 1 , Pages 25-33 , July 2008

Effects of N-acetylcysteine administration in hepatic microcirculation of rats with biliary cirrhosis

  • Ying-Ying Yang

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kuei-Chuan Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 11217, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yi-Tsau Huang

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Traditional Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ying-Wen Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 11217, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Chih Hou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 11217, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Fa-Yauh Lee

      Affiliations

    • Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Han-Chieh Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 11217, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: +886 2 28739318.
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  • Shou-Dong Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 11217, Taiwan

Received 19 May 2007 ,Revised 16 January 2008 ,Accepted 6 February 2008.

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☆ The authors who have taken part in the research of this paper declared that they do not have a relationship with the manufacturers of the materials involved either in the past or present and they did not receive funding from the manufacturers to carry out their research.

PII: S0168-8278(08)00163-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2008.02.012

Journal of Hepatology
Volume 49, Issue 1 , Pages 25-33 , July 2008

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