The global incidence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease(NAFLD)is escalating considerably.NAFLD covers a range of liver conditions from simple steatosis to the more severe form known as nonalcoholic steatohepatitis,wh...
B was supported by grants from the German Research Foundation(DFG;Nos.BE 4443/1-1,BE 4443/4-1,BE4443/6-1,KFO309284237345 P7 and CRC1213268555672 projects A02 and A04);German Center for Lung Research(DZL),and Excellence Cluster CardioPulmonary Institute(CPI;No.EXC2026390649896);XC acknowledges the support of the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Grant(No.LQ24H210001);EEA was supported by the DFG(Nos.EL 931/5-1,EL 931/4-1,KFO309284237345 P7 and SFB CRC1213268555672 project A04),Institute for Lung Health(ILH),CPI,and DZL.
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis(IPF)is characterized by accumulation of myofibroblasts(MYFs)and extracellular matrix components,which leads to severe distortion and scarring of the gas exchange units of the lung,the alv...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82270545 and No.81870381);Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(No.H2014206446)。
Objective Intestinal fibrosis is a refractory complication of inflammatory bowel disease(IBD).Tumor necrosis factor ligand-related molecule-1A(TL1A)is important for IBD-related intestinal fibrosis in a dextran sodium ...
sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52173120 and 21877023);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(No.2021018);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(No.L222015);the Key Area R&D Program of Guangdong Province(No.2020B0101020004);the Beijing Nova Program(No.20220484233).
Liver fibrosis and hepatic carcinoma(HCC)pose a huge challenge worldwide due to the lack of effective treatment options for end-stage liver diseases.According to their functions and roles,hepatic myofibroblasts mainly...
funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China Grants(2019YFA0906001);National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants(82022047,81972100);Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Council Grant(2017B030301018);project of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Union Shenzhen Hospital(NY2021029,NY2021030,NY2021031).
Fibrosis is caused by extensive deposition of extracellular matrix(ECM)components,which play a crucial role in injury repair.Fibrosis attributes to~45%of all deaths worldwide.The molecular pathology of different fibro...
the Institute of Zoology,Chinese Academy of Sciences for their technical assistance.This work was supported by grants from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA16030400 to W.L.);the National Key Research and Development Program(2018YFC1004500 to Y.Z.and 2017YFA0103803 to Q.Z.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31621004 to Q.Z.and W.L.);CAS Project for Young Scientists in Basic Research(YSBR-012 to W.L.);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2019M650841 to Z.H.);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31900510 to Y.L.).
Fibrosis can occur in almost all tissues and organs and affects normal physiological function,which may have serious consequences,such as organ failure.However,there are currently no effective,broad-spectmm drugs suit...
The work described was supported by grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFE0114500);the‘361 Project’Outstanding Young Talent of the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81803604);the National Science Foundation of Hunan Province for Excellent Young Scholars(2020JJ3056).
Pulmonary fibrosis(PF)is a type of chronic and progressive respiratory diseases characterized by excessive extracellular matrix(ECM)deposition,interstitial fibrotic lesions,and architectural distortion.Patients with P...
The design of this study and analysis of data were financially supported by the grants from Russian Science Foundation(No.18-75-10076)and by RFBR(No.19-315-51035).
Gliomas are solid brain tumors composed of tumor cells and recruited heterogenic stromal components.The study of the interactions between the perivascular niche and its surrounding cells is of great value in unravelin...
Background: Upon liver injury, quiescent hepatic stellate cells(q HSCs), reside in the perisinusoidal space, phenotypically transdifferentiate into myofibroblast-like cells(MFBs). The q HSCs in the normal liver are le...
Botulinum toxin type-A (BTX-A), a subtype from known seven types of botulinum neurotoxin (serotype A-G), is produced by a gram-positive bacterium, Clostridium botulinum. The toxin is now widely and efficiently ...