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Connective tissue growth factor in human liver cirrhosis

DOI

102

Citations

0

References

2000

Year

Mohamed Abou‐Shady, Helmut Friess, Arthur Zimmermann, Fabio F. di Mola, Xiaozhong Guo, Hans U. Baer, Markus W. Büchler
Liver International

Abstract

Overexpression of CTGF in liver cirrhosis, especially in fibroblasts/myofibroblasts and stellate cells, suggests that this novel factor may play an important role in hepatic fibrosis.