Activated hepatic stellate cells promote liver cancer by induction of myeloid-derived suppressor cells through cyclooxygenase-2

Abstract

// <![CDATA[ $('.header-date').hide();$('#titleAuthors').hide();$('#abstractHeader').hide(); // ]]> Yaping Xu1,2,*, Wenxiu Zhao1,*, Jianfeng Xu1, Jie Li1, Zaifa Hong1, Zhenyu Yin1 and Xiaomin Wang1 1 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma (Xiamen University Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital), Xiamen, Fujian, China 2 Department of Basic Medicine, Xiamen Medicine College, Fujian, China * These authors have contributed equally to this work Correspondence to: Xiaomin Wang, email: // <![CDATA[ mail("wxm2203","xmu.edu",23,"") // ]]> Zhenyu Yin, email: // <![CDATA[ mail("yinzy","xmu.edu",23,"") // ]]> Keywords: myeloid-derived suppressor cells, hepatic stellate cell, cyclooxygenase 2, hepatocellular carcinoma, prostaglandin 2 Received: March 04, 2015 Accepted: December 12, 2015 Published: January 07, 2016