ArticleHepatology international2008
Targeting liver myofibroblasts: a novel approach in anti-fibrogenic therapy.
Article in Hepatology international, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- From mechanisms to anti-fibrotic drugs in hepatic stellate cell research: a global bibliometric analysis with patent and clinical perspectives (2000-2025).Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Pooled it
- Targeted Drug Delivery to Hepatic Stellate Cells for the Treatment of Liver Fibrosis.The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics · 2019Review
- Expression, purification, and evaluation of in vivo anti-fibrotic activity for soluble truncated TGF-β receptor II as a cleavable His-SUMO fusion protein.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2018Article
- A new fluorescence-based optical imaging method to non-invasively monitor hepatic myofibroblasts in vivo.Journal of hepatology · 2016Article
- Epithelial-mesenchymal transition: An emerging target in tissue fibrosis.Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) · 2016Review
- The myofibroblast matrix: implications for tissue repair and fibrosis.The Journal of pathology · 2013Review
- Mesenchymal cells of the intestinal lamina propria.Annual review of physiology · 2011Review
- Low affinity glucocorticoid binding site ligands as potential anti-fibrogenics.Comparative hepatology · 2009Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Chronic liver disease results in a liver-scarring response termed fibrosis. Excessive scarring leads to cirrhosis, which is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The only treatment for liver cirrhosis is liver transplantation; therefore, much attention has been directed toward therapies that will slow or reverse fibrosis. Although anti-fibrogenic therapies have been shown to be effective in experimental animal models, licensed therapies have yet to emerge. A potential problem for any anti-fibrogenic therapy in the liver is the existence of the body's major drug metabolising cell (the hepatocyte) adjacent to the primary fibrosis-causing cell, the myofibroblast. This article reviews the development of a human recombinant single-chain antibody (scAb) that binds to the surface of myofibroblasts. This antibody binds specifically to myofibroblasts in fibrotic mouse livers. When conjugated with a compound that stimulates myofibroblast apoptosis, the antibody directs the specific apoptosis of myofibroblasts with greater specificity and efficacy than the free compound. The antibody also reduces the adverse effect of liver macrophage apoptosis and-in contrast to the free compound-reversed fibrosis in the sustained injury model used. These data suggest that specifically stimulating the apoptosis of liver myofibroblasts using a targeting antibody has potential in the treatment of liver fibrosis.
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