Injection of embryonic stem cell derived macrophages ameliorates fibrosis in a murine model of liver injury

Injection of embryonic stem cell derived macrophages ameliorates fibrosis in a murine model of liver injury

Stem cell-derived macrophages could treat liver fibrosis Macrophages, a type of white blood cell, when derived from embryonic stem cells in the laboratory reduce fibrosis in chronic liver disease. Lesley Forrester and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh found murine embryonic stem-cell-deriv...

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Main Authors: Sharmin S. Haideri, Alison C. McKinnon, A. Helen Taylor, Phoebe Kirkwood, Philip J. Starkey Lewis, Eoghan O’Duibhir, Bertrand Vernay, Stuart Forbes, Lesley M. Forrester
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:npj Regenerative Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41536-017-0017-0

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