The NLRP3 Inflammasome and IL-1β Accelerate Immunologically Mediated Pathology in Experimental Viral Fulminant Hepatitis.

Viral fulminant hepatitis (FH) is a severe disease with high mortality resulting from excessive inflammation in the infected liver. Clinical interventions have been inefficient due to the lack of knowledge for inflammatory pathogenesis in the virus-infected liver. We show that wild-type mice infecte...

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Main Authors: Sheng Guo, Chengying Yang, Bo Diao, Xiaoyong Huang, Meihua Jin, Lili Chen, Weiming Yan, Qin Ning, Lixin Zheng, Yuzhang Wu, Yongwen Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-09-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4569300?pdf=render