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ArticleCell death & disease2024

GITRL impairs hepatocyte repopulation by liver progenitor cells to aggravate inflammation and fibrosis by GITR

Li Li, Yu He, Kai Liu, Lin Liu, Shan Shan, Helin Liu, Jiangbo Ren, Shujie Sun, Min Wang, Jidong Jia and 1 more

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Influencing factors and mechanism of hepatocyte regeneration.Journal of translational medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Li Li *Liver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
Yu He *Liver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
Kai LiuBeijing Clinical Research Institute, Beijing, 100050, China.
Lin LiuLiver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
Shan ShanLiver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
Helin LiuLiver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
Jiangbo RenLiver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
Shujie SunLiver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
Min WangLiver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China.
Jidong JiaLiver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China. jia_jd@ccmu.edu.cn.
Ping WangLiver Research Center, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100050, China. wangping2009@ccmu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-1395-2014
Capital Medical University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As an alternative pathway for liver regeneration, liver progenitor cells and their derived ductular reaction cells increase during the progression of many chronic liver diseases. However, the mechanism underlying their hepatocyte repopulation after liver injury remains unknown. Here, we conducted progenitor cell lineage tracing in mice and found that fewer than 2% of hepatocytes were derived from liver progenitor cells after 9 weeks of injury with a choline-deficient diet supplemented with ethionine (CDE), and this percentage increased approximately three-fold after 3 weeks of recovery. We also found that the proportion of liver progenitor cells double positive for the ligand of glucocorticoid-induced tumour necrosis factor receptor (GITRL, also called Tnfsf18) and SRY-related HMG box transcription 9 (Sox9) among nonparenchymal cells increased time-dependently upon CDE injury and reduced after recovery. When GITRL was conditionally knocked out from hepatic progenitor cells, its expression in nonparenchymal cells was downregulated by approximately fifty percent, and hepatocyte repopulation increased by approximately three folds. Simultaneously, conditional knockout of GITRL reduced the proportion of liver-infiltrating CD8

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CD8-Positive T-LymphocytesGlucocorticoidsAnimalsFibrosisHepatocytesInflammationLiverMiceReceptors, Tumor Necrosis FactorStem CellsTumor Necrosis FactorsGlucocorticoidsReceptors, Tumor Necrosis FactorTnfsf18 protein, mouseTumor Necrosis Factors

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PMID38321001
PMCPMC10847460
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