Repair‐related activation of hedgehog signaling promotes... : Hepatology (original) (raw)

Autoimmune, Cholestatic and Biliary Disease

Repair‐related activation of hedgehog signaling promotes cholangiocyte chemokine production†

Omenetti, Alessia1; Syn, Wing‐Kin1; Jung, Youngmi1; Francis, Heather2,3; Porrello, Alessandro4; Witek, Rafal P.1; Choi, Steve S.1; Yang, Liu1; Mayo, Marlyn J.5; Gershwin, M. Eric6; Alpini, Gianfranco2,3,7; Diehl, Anna Mae*,1,‡

1Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

2Department of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Scott & White Hospital, Temple, TX

3Systems Biology and Translational Medicine, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, TX

4Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC

5Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX

6Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA

7Division of Research, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, TX

Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University Medical Center, GSRB 1, 595 LaSalle Street, Suite 1073, Box 3256, Durham, NC 27710===

Received November 19, 2008

Accepted April 03, 2009