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Exosome‐derived miR ‐142‐5p from liver stem cells improves the progression of liver fibrosis by regulating macrophage polarization through CTSB
Summary
This paper is not about microplastics; it investigates how exosome-derived microRNA from liver stem cells affects liver fibrosis progression through macrophage regulation.
Our data suggest that EVs-derived miR-142-5p from LSCs improves the progression of liver fibrosis by regulating macrophage polarization through ctsb.
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