Phagocytosis of apoptotic bodies by hepa
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Shan-Shan Zhan; Joy X. Jiang; Jian Wu; Charles Halsted; Scott L. Friedman; Mark
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Hepatic stellate cell activation is a main feature of liver fibrogenesis. We have previously shown that phagocytosis of apoptotic bodies by stellate cells induces procollagen ␣1 (I) and transforming growth factor beta (TGF-) expression in vitro. Here we have further investigated the downstream effe