Access
To read this article in full you may need to log in, make a payment or gain access through a site license (see right).
News and Views
Nature Medicine 13, 1281-1282 (1 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/nm1107-1281;
A deer in the headlights: BAMBI meets liver fibrosis
Abstract
Chronic liver disease leads to continual injury and a wound-healing response in the organ, which causes a torrent of problems. The injuries contribute to a cascade of events in which gut bacteria leak from the intestine, provoking the recruitment of inflammatory cells, which drown the microenvironment in fibrogenic cytokines.
To read this article in full you may need to log in, make a payment or gain access through a site license (see right).
