Kupffer cells: Increasingly significant role in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Annals of Hepatology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 489-495

  Zhang, Wenfeng ^a   Wu, Yakun ^a,c   Mu, Di ^d   Gong, Jianping ^a   Wu, Chuanxin ^a   Huang, Chun ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chongqing Three Gorges Medical College   (China)

^c Suining Central Hospital   (China)

^d THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fatty liver; Inflammation; NF kappa B; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; FATTY ACID; GAMMA INTERFERON; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN; I KAPPA B KINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; LEPTIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; STAT3 PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; X BOX BINDING PROTEIN 1; AUTACOID; CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME BINDING; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; KUPFFER CELL; LIPID STORAGE; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; LIVER; METABOLISM; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHOLESTEROL; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; KUPFFER CELLS; LIVER; NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84906064344     PISSN: 16652681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1665-2681(19)31247-5     Document Type: Article

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