Macrophage Activation in Pediatric Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Correlates with Hepatic Progenitor Cell Response via Wnt3a Pathway

• Guido Carpino ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guido Carpino, Valerio Nobili

  Affiliation Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy

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• Valerio Nobili ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Guido Carpino, Valerio Nobili

  Affiliation Unit of Liver Research, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Anastasia Renzi,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Cristiano De Stefanis,

  Affiliation Unit of Liver Research, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Laura Stronati,

  Affiliation Department of Radiobiology and Human Health, ENEA, Rome, Italy

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• Antonio Franchitto,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Anna Alisi,

  Affiliation Unit of Liver Research, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Paolo Onori,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Rita De Vito,

  Affiliation Unit of Pathology, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Gianfranco Alpini,

  Affiliation Research, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Department of Medicine, Scott & White Digestive Disease Research Center, Scott & White and Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, Texas, United States of America

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• Eugenio Gaudio

  * E-mail: eugenio.gaudio@uniroma1.it

  Affiliation Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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