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Adipogenic transcriptional regulation of hepatic stellate cells.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 11 Feb 2005
She Hongyun, Xiong Shigang, Hazra Saswati, Tsukamoto Hidekazu
Abstract excerpt
Hepatic stellate cells (HSC) undergo transdifferentiation (activation) from lipid-storing pericytes to myofibroblastic cells to participate in liver fibrogenesis. Our recent work demonstrates that depletion of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARgamma) constitutes one of the key molecular events for HSC activation and that ectopic expression of this nuclear receptor achieves the phenotypic...
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