Liver fibrosis promotes immunity escape but limits the size of liver tumor in a rat orthotopic transplantation model

Abstract Liver fibrosis plays a crucial role in promoting tumor immune escape and tumor aggressiveness for liver cancer. However, an interesting phenomenon is that the tumor size of liver cancer patients with liver fibrosis is smaller than that of patients without liver fibrosis. In this study, 16 S...

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Main Authors: Tongqiang Li, Jiacheng Liu, Yingliang Wang, Chen Zhou, Qin Shi, Songjiang Huang, Chongtu Yang, Yang Chen, Yaowei Bai, Bin Xiong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02155-9