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Chemokines in liver inflammation and fibrosis.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 Aug 2010
Wasmuth Hermann E, Tacke Frank, Trautwein Christian
Abstract excerpt
Chemokines are a class of small chemotactic molecules with cytokine-like functions, which are well known to orchestrate inflammatory responses within different organs. Overall, more than 50 ligands and 19 receptors belong to the network. In recent years, accumulating functional and genetic evidence suggests that chemokines play a critical role in acute and chronic liver diseases, mediating the infiltration of...
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