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Hepatocytes enhance effects of lipopolysaccharide on liver nonparenchymal cells through close cell interactions.
Shock (Augusta, Ga.) - 1 May 2005
Scott Melanie J, Liu Shubing, Su Grace L, Vodovotz Yoram, Billiar Timothy R
Abstract excerpt
The response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the liver is complex, requiring cell-to-cell interactions between hepatocytes and liver nonparenchymal cells (NPC), in particular, Kupffer cells. Previous studies show that cytokines produced by Kupffer cells stimulated with LPS can, in turn, activate hepatocytes. In the present study, we sought to examine whether the reverse, hepatocyte (HC)-NPC interactions, is...
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