Fibrosis
Researchers at University Hospital target fibrosis
Published in Cancer Weekly, September 30th, 2008
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Hepatic fibrogenesis in response to chronic liver injury: novel insights on the role of cell-to-cell interaction and transition.' According to a study from Ancona, Italy, "Hepatic fibrosis represents the wound-healing response process of the liver to chronic injury, independently from aetiology. Advanced liver fibrosis results in cirrhosis that can lead to liver failure, portal hypertension and hepatocellular carcinoma."
"Currently, no effective therapies are available for hepatic fibrosis. After the definition of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) as the main liver extracellular matrix-producing cells in the 1980s, the...
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