Acetaldehyde activates the promoter of t
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Albert Parés,*; James J. Potter; Lynda Rennie; Esteban Mezey
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Article
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1994
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The mechanism whereby ethanol ingestion results in hepatic fibrosis remains unknown. Acetaldehyde has been shown to increase a,(I) collagen gene transcription in human fibroblasts and in rat myofibroblastlike cells (Ito cells) in culture. In this study, the effect of acetaldehyde was determined on t