Hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation is an essential event during liver fibrogene- sis. Phosphatase and tension homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN), a tumor suppressor, is a negative regulator of this proces...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.39870331.
INTRODUCTIONIt has been reported that renin-angiotensin systemexists in tissue and aldosterone can be synthesizedin extra-adrenal tissue including heart,bloodvessels and brain.Recent studies have broughtrich evidences...
AIM To assess the effect of ACE inhibitor andAng Ⅱ type Ⅰ(AT1)receptor antagonist inpreventing hepatic fibrosis caused by CCl4administration in rats;to investigate whether ornot there are expression of ...