Foreword: Inflammation and hepatic fibrosis

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 211-214

  Bissell, D Montgomery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIFIBROTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 3; GAMMA INTERFERON; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; PRAZIQUANTEL; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; AUTACOID;

APOPTOSIS; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROGENESIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; INFLAMMATION; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STELLATE CELL; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HEPATITIS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77955002700     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: 10988971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1255350     Document Type: Editorial

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