Insulin and Insulin–Like Growth Factor–1 Stimulate Proliferation and Type I Collagen Accumulation by Human Hepatic Stellate Cells: Differential Effects on Signal Transduction Pathways

Gianluca Svegliati‐Baroni, F. Ridolfi, A. Di Sario, +8

Hepatology

Cholinergic system modulates growth, apoptosis, and secretion of cholangiocytes from bile duct–ligated rats

Gene LeSage, Domenico Alvaro, A. Benedetti, +9

Gastroenterology

HepatologyBiliary TractMedicineLiver PhysiologyPhysiology +12

Autocrine/paracrine regulation of the growth of the biliary tree by the neuroendocrine hormone serotonin

Marco Marzioni, Shannon Glaser, Heather Francis, +11

Gastroenterology

BiologyBiliary TreeNeuroanatomyPineal GlandPhysiology +8

Acute carbon tetrachloride feeding induces damage of large but not small cholangiocytes from BDL rat liver

Gene LeSage, Shannon Glaser, Luca Marucci, +9

American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Estrogens and Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 Modulate Neoplastic Cell Growth in Human Cholangiocarcinoma

Domenico Alvaro, Barbara Barbaro, Antonio Franchitto, +13

American Journal Of Pathology

Malignant DiseaseHuman CholangiocarcinomaBiliary CancerCancer GrowthPathology +6

cAMP stimulates the secretory and proliferative capacity of the rat intrahepatic biliary epithelium through changes in the PKA/Src/MEK/ERK1/2 pathway

Heather Francis, Shannon Glaser, Yoshiyuki Ueno, +11

Journal of Hepatology

Molecular PhysiologyHepatologySignal TransductionBiliary TractMedicine +13

Role and mechanisms of action of acetylcholine in the regulation of rat cholangiocyte secretory functions.

Domenico Alvaro, Gianfranco Alpini, A. M. Jézéquel, +8

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Gastrin inhibits cholangiocyte growth in bile duct-ligated rats by interaction with cholecystokinin-B/gastrin receptors via d -myo-inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate-, Ca2+-, and protein kinase C α-dependent mechanisms

Alessandra Caligiuri, Gene LeSage, Leonardo Baiocchi, +9

Hepatology

Nerve growth factor modulates the proliferative capacity of the intrahepatic biliary epithelium in experimental cholestasis

Alessandro Gigliozzi, Gianfranco Alpini, Gianluca Svegliati‐Baroni, +10

Gastroenterology

Developmental BiologyHepatologyEpendymaExperimental CholestasisBiliary Tract +12

Acute Carbon Tetrachloride Feeding Selectively Damages Large, But Not Small, Cholangiocytes From Normal Rat Liver

Gene LeSage, A. Benedetti, Shannon Glaser, +10

Hepatology