Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD FibroScan is the brand name for transient elastography, an abdominal ultrasound that ...

Instead of allowing inflammation to subside, CXCL4 prevents immune suppression, keeping pDCs in a state of chronic activation ...

Moreover, the cells and soluble factors participating in this response in liver are also similar to those in parenchymal injury to kidney, lung, or skin. Fibrosis occurs earliest in regions where ...

The subcutaneous tissue, however, showed broad bands of fibrosis intersecting in a haphazard fashion between lobules of mature adipose tissue without a significant inflammatory component (Figure 2).