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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2021-11-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02155-9 |