Leptin as a novel profibrogenic cytokine in hepatic stellate cells: mitogenesis and inhibition of apoptosis mediated by extracellular regulated kinase (Erk) and Akt phosphorylation.

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Published in FASEB J on August 19, 2004

Authors

Neeraj K Saxena1, Mark A Titus, Xiaokun Ding, Jeffrey Floyd, Shanthi Srinivasan, Shanthi V Sitaraman, Frank A Anania

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1: Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

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