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Hypoxia, hypoxia-inducible factors and fibrogenesis in chronic liver diseases.
1 Jan 2014
Abstract excerpt
Fibrogenic progression of chronic liver diseases (CLDs) towards the end-point of cirrhosis is currently regarded, whatever the aetiology, as a dynamic and highly integrated cellular response to chronic liver injury. Liver fibrogenesis (i.e., the process) is sustained by hepatic populations of highly proliferative, pro-fibrogenic and contractile myofibroblast-like cells (MFs) that mainly originate from hepatic...
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