Molecular pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis and current therapeutic approaches
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Molecular pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis and current therapeutic approaches.
The pathogenesis of hepatic fibrosis involves significant deposition of fibrilar collagen and other extracellular matrix proteins. It is a rather dynamic process of wound healing in response to a variety of persistent liver injury caused by factors such as ethanol intake, viral infection, drugs, toxins, cholestasis, and metabolic disorders. Liver fibrosis distorts the hepatic architecture, decr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chemico-Biological Interactions
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0009-2797
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2011.07.001