Identification of biliprotein as a liver growth factor
Open Access
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Hepatology
- Vol. 8 (3), 484-486
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.1840080308
Abstract
We determined the concentration of biliprotein in plasma of rats at different times after partial hepatectomy. From the same plasma samples, we purified a liver growth factor previously characterized by our group. When we plotted the 14 points studied, a linear relationship was obtained (r = 0.999; p < 0.001). This result, in addition to our group’s recent identification of this liver growth factor as an albumin-bilirubin complex, strongly suggests that biliprotein is a liver growth factor.This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
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