Researchers have uncovered a significant mechanism involved in liver fibrosis. Their findings have been published in the journal Gut. The study highlights the extracellular matrix protein 1 (ECM1 ...

The clarification of the mechanisms of fibrosis has led to ... challenge is to find the optimal method of diagnosing fibrosis. Although liver biopsy combined with connective tissue stains has ...

Hepatic fibrosis is the common result of injury to the liver from a variety of damaging mechanisms, and the accurate assessment of the degree of fibrosis is clinically important. For many years ...

Long-term exposure to low levels of traffic-related air pollution harms the liver and may raise the risk of ...

Fatty liver disease, or hepatic steatosis, occurs when excess fat accumulates in liver cells. Commonly associated with ...

Among the general US population, simple and affordable non-invasive liver fibrosis scoring systems may be able to identify individuals at risk for HF.

Cellular senescence, where cells permanently stop dividing, plays a complex role in liver health. In a recent review article, ...

the mechanism-based inhibitor PAT-1251 robustly inhibits the catalytic activity of LOXL2, resulting in superior antifibrotic efficacy in models of lung, liver and kidney fibrosis. Data from long ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), previously known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is the most common cause of chronic liver disease in children. MASLD ...