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Mechanosignaling via Integrins: Pivotal Players in Liver Fibrosis Progression and Therapy.

Aigul Sharip, Jeannette Kunz

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Review in Cells, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Mechanobiology of the Hippo-YAP Signaling Network.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2026
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  20. Biliary atresia-related liver fibrosis.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Aigul SharipDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan.ORCID 0000-0002-1457-3024
Jeannette KunzDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Astana 020000, Kazakhstan.ORCID 0000-0002-0776-3233

Funding

Nazarbayev University 021220CRP1722
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liver fibrosis, a consequence of chronic liver injury, represents a major global health burden and is the leading cause of liver failure, morbidity, and mortality. The pathological hallmark of this condition is excessive extracellular matrix deposition, driven primarily by integrin-mediated mechanotransduction. Integrins, transmembrane heterodimeric proteins that serve as primary ECM receptors, orchestrate complex mechanosignaling networks that regulate the activation, differentiation, and proliferation of hepatic stellate cells and other ECM-secreting myofibroblasts. These mechanical signals create self-reinforcing feedback loops that perpetuate the fibrotic response. Recent advances have provided insight into the roles of specific integrin subtypes in liver fibrosis and revealed their regulation of key downstream effectors-including transforming growth factor beta, focal adhesion kinase, RhoA/Rho-associated, coiled-coil containing protein kinase, and the mechanosensitive Hippo pathway. Understanding these mechanotransduction networks has opened new therapeutic possibilities through pharmacological manipulation of integrin-dependent signaling.

Indexed as

Disease ProgressionIntegrinsLiver CirrhosisMechanotransduction, CellularAnimalsExtracellular MatrixHepatic Stellate CellsHumansSignal TransductionIntegrinsextracellular matrixhepatic stellate cellHippo pathwayintegrinliver fibrosismechanotransductionMRTFROCKTGF-betatherapeutic compoundsYAP

Identifiers

PMID39996739
PMCPMC11854242

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