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- Received September 15, 2011
- Accepted December 6, 2011
- Published online February 14, 2012.
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Author Information
- Vedrana Reichenbach,
- Josefa Ros,
- Guillermo Fernández-Varo,
- Gregori Casals,
- Pedro Melgar-Lesmes,
- Teresa Campos,
- Alexandros Makriyannis,
- Manuel Morales-Ruiz and
- Wladimiro Jiménez
- Service of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain (V.R., J.R., G.F.-V., G.C., P.M.-L., T.C., M.M.-R., W.J.); Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain (V.R., J.R., G.F.-V., P.M.-L., M.M.-R., W.J.); Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Barcelona, Spain (G.F.-V., M.M.-R., W.J.); Center for Drug Discovery, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts (A.M.); and Department of Physiological Sciences I, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (W.J.)
- Address correspondence to:
Dr. Wladimiro Jiménez, Servicio de Bioquímica y Genética Molecular, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Villarroel 170, Barcelona 08036, Spain. E-mail: wjimenez{at}clinic.ub.es
This work was previously presented in part at the following conferences: Reichenbach V, Ros J, Fernández-Varo G, Muñoz-Luque J, Morales-Ruiz M, Makriyannis A, and Jiménez W (2008) Chronic stimulation of cannabinoid CB2 receptor represses fibrosis progression in CCl4-treated rats. 59th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases; 2008 Oct 31–Nov 4; San Francisco, CA. American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Alexandria, VA. Reichenbach V, Ros J, Fernández-Varo G, Casals G, Melgar-Lesmes P, Pauta M, Morales-Ruiz M, and Jiménez W (2010) Activation of the hepatic apelin system is of major relevance in early stages of liver fibrosis. International Liver Conference 2010; 2010 Apr 14–18; Vienna, Austria. European Association for the Study of the Liver, Geneva, Switzerland.
