Monocyte chemotactic protein-1 as a chem
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Fabio Marra; Roberto G. Romanelli; Carlo Giannini; Paola Failli; Sabrina Pastaca
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Following liver injury, hepatic stellate cells (HSC) undergo proliferation and migrate into damaged areas in response to chemotactic factors. HSC have been shown to regulate leukocyte trafficking by secreting monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1), a chemokine that recruits monocytes and lymphocytes