Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Mucosal-associated invariant T cells are a profibrogenic immune cell population in the liver

  • Pushpa Hegde,
  • Emmanuel Weiss,
  • Valérie Paradis,
  • Jinghong Wan,
  • Morgane Mabire,
  • Sukriti Sukriti,
  • Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou,
  • Miguel Albuquerque,
  • Olivia Picq,
  • Abhishak Chandra Gupta,
  • Gladys Ferrere,
  • Hélène Gilgenkrantz,
  • Badr Kiaf,
  • Amine Toubal,
  • Lucie Beaudoin,
  • Philippe Lettéron,
  • Richard Moreau,
  • Agnès Lehuen,
  • Sophie Lotersztajn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04450-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Hepatic fibrosis represents the liver response to chronic injury and can lead to cirrhosis. Here the authors show that mucosal-associated invariant T cells mediate chronic inflammation and fibrogenesis in the liver by inducing a proinflammatory phenotype in macrophages and myofibroblasts and proliferation of the latter.