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Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 2009 This review will summarize the most significant work that contributed to the understanding of liver fibrosis progression and resolution, which in turn has yielded new areas of therapeutic targeting.Liver fibrosis is the result of an imbalance between production and dissolution of extracellular matrix.
Jingjing, Jiao +2 more
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Adipocytokines and hepatic fibrosis [PDF]
Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2015 Obesity and metabolic syndrome pose significant risk for the progression of many types of chronic illness, including liver disease. Hormones released from adipocytes, adipocytokines, associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome, have been shown to control hepatic inflammation and fibrosis.
Saxena, Neeraj K., Anania, Frank A.
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Autophagy in Hepatic Fibrosis [PDF]
BioMed Research International, 2014 Hepatic fibrosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Hepatic fibrosis is usually associated with chronic liver diseases caused by infection, drugs, metabolic disorders, or autoimmune imbalances. Effective clinical therapies are still lacking.
Yang Song +5 more
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Autoimmune Hepatitis and Fibrosis
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic immune-inflammatory disease of the liver, generally considered a rare condition. The clinical manifestation is extremely varied and can range from paucisymptomatic forms to severe hepatitis. Chronic liver damage causes activation of hepatic and inflammatory cells leading to inflammation and oxidative stress ...
Rinaldo Pellicano +5 more
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Noninvasive diagnosis of pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease [PDF]
Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 2013 Because nonalcoholic steatohepatitis can progress towards cirrhosis even in children, early detection of hepatic fibrosis and accurate diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are important.
Hye Ran Yang
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Hepatic Fibrosis in Dogs [PDF]
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2018 Abstract Hepatic fibrosis is commonly diagnosed in dogs, often as a sequela to chronic hepatitis (CH). The development of fibrosis is a crucial event in the progression of hepatic disease that is of prognostic value. The pathophysiology of hepatic fibrosis in human patients and rodent models has been studied extensively. Although less
V.M. Eulenberg, J.A. Lidbury
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Peritoneal hepatoid carcinoma with chemotherapy response and possible stem cell involvement
Human Pathology: Case Reports, 2018 Hepatoid carcinoma is a rare type of malignancy showing hepatocellular differentiation, without tumour in the liver. Hepatoid carcinoma in the female genital tract of older patients has been suggested to be a rare type of yolk sac tumour, possibly ...
Christine K.C. Loo +4 more
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Hepatitis C and fibrosis [PDF]
Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas, 2004 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a health problem involving more than 100 million people worldwide. However, despite these high numbers, only a group of infected people will develop serious difficulties from viral persistence. Liver fibrosis is the main complication of chronic HCV infection, and its eventual outcome –liver cirrhosis– is responsible
Aguilera, V., Berenguer, M.
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Noninvasive Diagnosis of Hepatic Fibrosis in Hemodialysis Patients with Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Diagnostics, 2022 Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major health problem in hemodialysis patients, which leads to significant morbidity and mortality through progressive hepatic fibrosis or cirrhosis.
Chen-Hua Liu, Jia-Horng Kao
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Fibrosis and hepatic regeneration mechanism [PDF]
Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2022 Liver cirrhosis is the final stage of continuous hepatic inflammatory activity derived by viral, metabolic or autoimmune origin. In the last years, cirrhosis was considered a unique and static condition; recently was accepted some patients subgroups with different liver injury degrees that coexist under the same diagnosis, with implications about the ...
Esmeralda, Zuñiga-Aguilar +1 more
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