Sonic hedgehog is an autocrine viability factor for myofibroblastic hepatic stellate cells.

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Published in J Hepatol on October 18, 2007

Authors

Liu Yang1, Ying Wang, Hua Mao, Susanne Fleig, Alessia Omenetti, Kevin D Brown, Jason K Sicklick, Yin-Xiong Li, Anna Mae Diehl

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1: Gastroenterology and Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

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