p90RSK: A new therapeutic target for liver fibrosis?

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 08:49 in Health & Medicine

Cirrhosis is a world wide, bad prognosis liver disease and characterized by excessive collagen deposition and liver function damage. In our previous work, p90RSK is observed significantly up-regulated in association with elevated collagen type I levels in rat liver fibrosis. But detail mechanism of this phenomenon is still unknown.

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