Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 2 , Pages 288-294 , February 2010

Antiangiogenic response after 70% hepatectomy and its relationship with hepatic regeneration and angiogenesis in rats

  • Ahmet Bulent Dogrul, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Surgery, Medical School, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Ahmet Bulent Dogrul, MD, Hacetepe Universitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Genel Cerrahi AD 06100, Sıhhiye/Ankara, Turkey.
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  • Tamer Colakoglu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Surgery, Medical School, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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  • Kemal Kosemehmetoglu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Medical School, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
    • ,
  • Esra Birben

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Allergy and Asthma Research Laboratory, Medical School, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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  • Elif Yaman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
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  • Gokhan Gedikoglu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Medical School, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
    • ,
  • Osman Abbasoglu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Surgery, Medical School, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

,Accepted 5 October 2009.

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 Financial support of this study was supplied by Hacettepe University Scientific Research Unit (06 D02 101 004).

PII: S0039-6060(09)00625-4

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.10.015

Surgery
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