Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

A human liver cell-based system modeling a clinical prognostic liver signature for therapeutic discovery

  • Emilie Crouchet,
  • Simonetta Bandiera,
  • Naoto Fujiwara,
  • Shen Li,
  • Hussein El Saghire,
  • Mirian Fernández-Vaquero,
  • Tobias Riedl,
  • Xiaochen Sun,
  • Hadassa Hirschfield,
  • Frank Jühling,
  • Shijia Zhu,
  • Natascha Roehlen,
  • Clara Ponsolles,
  • Laura Heydmann,
  • Antonio Saviano,
  • Tongqi Qian,
  • Anu Venkatesh,
  • Joachim Lupberger,
  • Eloi R. Verrier,
  • Mozhdeh Sojoodi,
  • Marine A. Oudot,
  • François H. T. Duong,
  • Ricard Masia,
  • Lan Wei,
  • Christine Thumann,
  • Sarah C. Durand,
  • Victor González-Motos,
  • Danijela Heide,
  • Jenny Hetzer,
  • Shigeki Nakagawa,
  • Atsushi Ono,
  • Won-Min Song,
  • Takaaki Higashi,
  • Roberto Sanchez,
  • Rosa S. Kim,
  • C. Billie Bian,
  • Karun Kiani,
  • Tom Croonenborghs,
  • Aravind Subramanian,
  • Raymond T. Chung,
  • Beate K. Straub,
  • Detlef Schuppan,
  • Maliki Ankavay,
  • Laurence Cocquerel,
  • Evelyne Schaeffer,
  • Nicolas Goossens,
  • Anna P. Koh,
  • Milind Mahajan,
  • Venugopalan D. Nair,
  • Ganesh Gunasekaran,
  • Myron E. Schwartz,
  • Nabeel Bardeesy,
  • Alex K. Shalek,
  • Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen,
  • Aviv Regev,
  • Emanuele Felli,
  • Patrick Pessaux,
  • Kenneth K. Tanabe,
  • Mathias Heikenwälder,
  • Catherine Schuster,
  • Nathalie Pochet,
  • Mirjam B. Zeisel,
  • Bryan C. Fuchs,
  • Yujin Hoshida,
  • Thomas F. Baumert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25468-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Drug and target discovery for advanced liver disease are hampered by a lack of suitable models for clinical translation. Here the authors present a human liver cell-based system modeling a clinical prognostic signature allowing to propose nizatidine for treatment of advanced liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma prevention.