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NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 181-194Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nri3623
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- The Health Foundation, UK
- Medical Research Council, UK
- Wellcome Trust, UK
- Medical Research Council
- Wellcome Trust
- Children's Liver Disease Foundation, UK
- MRC [G0901697, G84/6205, G0600033, MR/J010766/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [MR/J010766/1, G0901697, G0600033, G84/6205] Funding Source: researchfish
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Fibrosis is a highly conserved and co-ordinated protective response to tissue injury. The interaction of multiple pathways, molecules and systems determines whether fibrosis is self-limiting and homeostatic, or whether it is uncontrolled and excessive. Immune cells have been identified as key players in this fibrotic cascade, with the capacity to exert either injury-inducing or repair-promoting effects. A multi-organ approach was recently suggested to identify the core and regulatory pathways in fibrosis, with the aim of integrating the wealth of information emerging from basic fibrosis research. In this Review, we focus on recent advances in liver fibrosis research as a paradigm for wound healing in solid organs and the role of the immune system in regulating and balancing this response.
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