Mucosal-associated invariant T cells are a profibrogenic immune cell population in the liver

Autor: Pushpa Hegde, Emmanuel Weiss, Valérie Paradis, Jinghong Wan, Morgane Mabire, Sukriti Sukriti, Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou, Miguel Albuquerque, Olivia Picq, Abhishak Chandra Gupta, Gladys Ferrere, Hélène Gilgenkrantz, Badr Kiaf, Amine Toubal, Lucie Beaudoin, Philippe Lettéron, Richard Moreau, Agnès Lehuen, Sophie Lotersztajn
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
66393450
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04450-y
Popis: Hepatic fibrosis represents the liver response to chronic injury and can lead to cirrhosis. Here the authors show that mucosal-associated invariant T cells mediate chronic inflammation and fibrogenesis in the liver by inducing a proinflammatory phenotype in macrophages and myofibroblasts and proliferation of the latter.
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