The effect of antifibrotic drugs in rat precision-cut fibrotic liver slices.

Two important signaling pathways in liver fibrosis are the PDGF- and TGFβ pathway and compounds inhibiting these pathways are currently developed as antifibrotic drugs. Testing antifibrotic drugs requires large numbers of animal experiments with high discomfort. Therefore, a method to study these dr...

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Main Authors: Inge M Westra, Dorenda Oosterhuis, Geny M M Groothuis, Peter Olinga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3995767?pdf=render