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ReviewSeminars in liver disease2015

Antifibrotic therapies in the liver.

W Z Mehal, D Schuppan

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Review in Seminars in liver disease, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Therapeutic Potential of Ellagic Acid in Liver Diseases.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  6. Liver macrophages show an immunotolerance phenotype in nonalcoholic fatty liver combined withHua xi kou qiang yi xue za zhi = Huaxi kouqiang yixue zazhi = West China journal of stomatology · 2023
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  12. Targeting the Wnt Signaling Pathway in Liver Fibrosis for Drug Options: An Update.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2021
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  18. The Matrisome, Inflammation, and Liver Disease.Seminars in liver disease · 2020
    Review
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  20. [Consensus on the diagnosis and therapy of hepatic fibrosis in].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

W Z MehalSection of Digestive Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
D SchuppanDepartment of Medicine, Institute of Translational Immunology and Research Center for Immunotherapy, University of Mainz Medical Center, Mainz, Germany.

Funding

Yale Liver CenterP30DK034989 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI YASUKO IWAKIRI · 1986 to 2026
$31.1M
Targeting DAMPs in Alcoholic HepatitisU01AA021912 · NIAAA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MEHAL, WAJAHAT ZAFAR, SCHWABE, ROBERT F. · 2013 to 2017
$1.9M
NIAAA NIH HHS U01 AA021912NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK034989
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant progress has been made in understanding the principles underlying the development of liver fibrosis. This includes appreciating its dynamic nature, the importance of active fibrolysis in fibrosis regression, and the plasticity of cell populations endowing them with fibrogenic or fibrolytic properties. This is complemented by an increasing array of therapeutic targets with known roles in the progression or regression of fibrosis. With a key role for fibrosis in determining clinical outcomes and encouraging data from recently Food and Drug Administration-approved antifibrotics for pulmonary fibrosis, the development and validation of antifibrotic therapies has taken center stage in translational hepatology. In addition to summarizing the recent progress in antifibrotic therapies, the authors discuss some of the challenges ahead, such as achieving a better understanding of the interindividual heterogeneity of the fibrotic response, how to match interventions with the ideal patient population, and the development of better noninvasive methods to assess the dynamics of fibrogenesis and fibrolysis. Together, these advances will permit a better targeting and dose titration of individualized therapies. Finally, the authors discuss combination therapy with different antifibrotics as possibly the most potent approach for treating fibrosis in the liver.

Indexed as

Angiogenesis InhibitorsCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyDisease ProgressionHumansLiver CirrhosisAngiogenesis Inhibitors

Identifiers

PMID25974903
PMCPMC5743222

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