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CCR2 and CD44 promote inflammatory cell recruitment during fatty liver formation in a lithogenic diet fed mouse model.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Egan Charlotte E, Daugherity Erin K, Rogers Arlin B, Abi Abdallah Delbert S, Denkers Eric Y, Maurer Kirk J
Abstract excerpt
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common disease with a spectrum of presentations. The current study utilized a lithogenic diet model of NAFLD. The diet was fed to mice that are either resistant (AKR) or susceptible (BALB/c and C57BL/6) to hepatitis followed by molecular and flow cytometric analysis. Following this, a similar approach was taken in congenic mice with specific mutations in...
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