The role of miRNAs in stress-responsive hepatic stellate cells during liver fibrosis

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue JUL, 2015, Pages

  Lambrecht, Joeri ^a   Mannaerts, Inge ^a   van Grunsven, Leo A ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ER stress; Fibrosis; Hepatic stellate cells; Hypoxia; miRNAs; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

APOPTOSIS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL STRESS; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATORY CELL; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; STELLATE CELL;

EID: 84940029460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00209     Document Type: Review

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