This study was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30170920).
BACKGROUND: Liver fibrosis is the result of an imbalance between synthesis and degradation of extracellular matrix proteins of the liver. At the cellular and molecular levels, this progressive process is mainly charac...
This project was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30170920)and the Natural Science Foundation of Education Department of Fujian Province (No. JA03100).
BACKGROUND: The expression of gax, an anti-prolifera-tive homeobox gene, is rapidly down-regulated in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) following arterial injury. Whether the down-regulation of gax is involved in m...