Advances in antifibrotic therapy.

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Published in Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol on December 01, 2008

Authors

Zahra Ghiassi-Nejad1, Scott L Friedman

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Liver Diseases, Box 1123, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1425 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029, USA. zahra.ghiassi-nejad@mssm.edu

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