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Volume 40 Issue 4
Apr.  2024
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Mechanism of action of macrophage efferocytosis in acute and chronic liver diseases and related targeted therapy

DOI: 10.12449/JCH240432
Research funding:

National Natural Science Foundation of China (82360108);

Medicine Leading Talents of Yunnan Province (L-2019013);

The Yunnan Wanren Project (YNWR-MY-2018-028);

Yunnan Province Science And Technology Talents and Platform Plan (The Yunan Academician Expert Workstation 202305AF150065);

Clinical Research Project of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (2020ynlc010);

Clinical Research Project of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University (ynIIT2021017)

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  • Corresponding author: TANG Yingmei, tangyingmei_med@kmmu.edu.cn (ORCID: 0000-0002-0731-4198)
  • Received Date: 2023-08-20
  • Accepted Date: 2023-10-07
  • Published Date: 2024-04-11
  • Efferocytosis refers to the process by which apoptotic cells are engulfed and cleared by phagocytes, including professional phagocytes, such as macrophages and dendritic cells, and non-professional phagocytes, such as epithelial cells. Liver macrophages are the main cells with the function of efferocytosis in the liver. In recent years, an increasing number of studies have shown that various acute and chronic liver diseases are associated with the efferocytosis function of liver macrophages, including acute liver injury, alcoholic liver disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune liver disease, liver fibrosis, and liver cancer. This article elaborates on the expression of molecules associated with the efferocytosis function of macrophages, the process of efferocytosis, and the role of efferocytosis function in different liver diseases, so as to provide new ideas for the treatment of liver diseases.

     

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