The chemokine CCL3 promotes experimental liver fibrosis in mice.

Liver fibrosis is associated with infiltrating immune cells and activation of hepatic stellate cells. We here aimed to investigate the effects of the CC chemokine CCL3, also known as macrophage inflammatory protein-1α, in two different fibrosis models. To this end, we treated mice either with carbon...

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Main Authors: Daniel Heinrichs, Marie-Luise Berres, Andreas Nellen, Petra Fischer, David Scholten, Christian Trautwein, Hermann E Wasmuth, Hacer Sahin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3684603?pdf=render