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Can a fibrotic liver afford epithelial-mesenchymal transition?
Stefan Munker, Yong-Le Wu, Hui-Guo Ding, Roman Liebe, Hong-Lei Weng
Stefan Munker, Roman Liebe, Hong-Lei Weng, Department of Medicine II, Section Molecular Hepatology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, 68167 Mannheim, Germany
Stefan Munker, Department of Medicine I, University Medical Center, Regensburg University, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Yong-Le Wu, Hui-Guo Ding, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Beijing You’an Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China
Hui-Guo Ding, Major infectious diseases Collaborative Innovation Center, Beijing 100069, China
Roman Liebe, Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Saarland University, 66123 Homburg, Germany
Author contributions: Weng HL conceived and designed the manuscript; Munker S, Wu YL, Ding HG, Liebe R and Weng HL wrote and edited the manuscript.
Supported by Munker S, Weng HL were supported by Chinese-German Cooperation Group project, No. GZ 1263; Ding HG was supported by the National Science Fund, No. 81672725; the Capital Science and Technology Development Fund, No. 2014-1-2181; and Beijing Municipal Administration of Hospitals Clinical Medicine Development of Special Funding, No. ZYLX201610.
Conflict-of-interest statement: No potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article were reported.
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Correspondence to: Hong-Lei Weng, PhD, Principle Investigator, Department of Medicine II, Section Molecular Hepatology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Theodor-Kutzer Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim, Germany. honglei.weng@medma.uni-heidelberg.de
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Received: January 25, 2017
Peer-review started: February 1, 2017
First decision: March 20, 2017
Revised: April 4, 2017
Accepted: May 19, 2017
Article in press: May 19, 2017
Published online: July 14, 2017
