Hepatic inflammatory responses in liver fibrosis

L Hammerich, F Tacke - Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic liver diseases such as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or viral hepatitis are
characterized by persistent inflammation and subsequent liver fibrosis. Liver fibrosis critically …

Tissue-specific macrophages: how they develop and choreograph tissue biology

E Mass, F Nimmerjahn, K Kierdorf… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Macrophages are innate immune cells that form a 3D network in all our tissues, where they
phagocytose dying cells and cell debris, immune complexes, bacteria and other waste …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophages in health and disease

MD Park, A Silvin, F Ginhoux, M Merad - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The heterogeneity of tissue macrophages, in health and in disease, has become
increasingly transparent over the last decade. But with the plethora of data comes a natural …

Roles of macrophages in tumor development: a spatiotemporal perspective

M Bied, WW Ho, F Ginhoux, C Blériot - Cellular & molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Macrophages are critical regulators of tissue homeostasis but are also abundant in the
tumor microenvironment (TME). In both primary tumors and metastases, such tumor …

Immune mechanisms linking metabolic injury to inflammation and fibrosis in fatty liver disease–novel insights into cellular communication circuits

M Peiseler, R Schwabe, J Hampe, P Kubes… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most prevalent chronic liver disease and is
emerging as the leading cause of cirrhosis, liver transplantation and hepatocellular …

Liver macrophages in health and disease

M Guilliams, CL Scott - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomic technologies have revealed an underappreciated
heterogeneity of liver macrophages. This has led us to rethink the involvement of …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial proteogenomics reveals distinct and evolutionarily conserved hepatic macrophage niches

M Guilliams, J Bonnardel, B Haest, B Vanderborght… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The liver is the largest solid organ in the body, yet it remains incompletely characterized.
Here we present a spatial proteogenomic atlas of the healthy and obese human and murine …

An integrated view of anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic targets for the treatment of NASH

F Tacke, T Puengel, R Loomba, SL Friedman - Journal of Hepatology, 2023 - Elsevier
Successful development of treatments for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and its
progressive form, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), has been challenging. Because …

Macrophage functional diversity in NAFLD—more than inflammation

E Barreby, P Chen, M Aouadi - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2022 - nature.com
Macrophages have diverse phenotypes and functions due to differences in their origin,
location and pathophysiological context. Although their main role in the liver has been …

[HTML][HTML] Liver fibrosis in NAFLD/NASH: from pathophysiology towards diagnostic and therapeutic strategies

M Parola, M Pinzani - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Liver fibrosis, as an excess deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) components, results
from chronic liver injury as well as persistent activation of inflammatory response and of …