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Thioacetamide, adapted to weekly weight changes, leads to a homogenous, reproducible model of cirrhosis in the rat in 18 weeks, which is associated with all the typical characteristics of portal hypertension, including endothelial dysfunction.
Laleman et al. (2006) studied this question.
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