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Rapamycin Upregulates Connective Tissue Growth Factor Expression in Hepatic Progenitor Cells Through TGF-β-Smad2 Dependent Signaling
Rapamycin (sirolimus) is a mTOR kinase inhibitor and is widely used as an immunosuppressive drug to prevent graft rejection in organ transplantation currently. However, some recent investigations have reported that it had profibrotic effect in the progression of organ fibrosis, and its precise role...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6092675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30135653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2018.00877 |