Hepatic actions of vitamin D receptor ligands: a sunshine option for chronic liver disease?

A Vitamin D Receptor/SMAD Genomic Circuit Gates Hepatic Fibrotic Response

(2013) Ning Ding et al.   CELL

Status of research on vitamin D supplementation in treating or preventing liver fibrosis

(2013) Byoung-Joon Song et al.   LIVER INTERNATIONAL

Vitamin D for your patients with chronic hepatitis C?

(2012) Adeeb H. Rahman et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

The retinoid X receptors and their ligands

(2011) Marcia I. Dawson et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF LIPIDS

Vitamin D inhibits proliferation and profibrotic marker expression in hepatic stellate cells and decreases thioacetamide-induced liver fibrosis in rats

(2011) S. Abramovitch et al.   GUT

Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation

(2010) Osamu Takeuchi et al.   CELL

A Novel Bile Acid-Activated Vitamin D Receptor Signaling in Human Hepatocytes

(2010) Shuxin Han et al.   MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Vitamin D and Human Health: Lessons from Vitamin D Receptor Null Mice

(2008) Roger Bouillon et al.   ENDOCRINE REVIEWS

Next-generation DNA sequencing

(2008) Jay Shendure et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Resolution of liver cirrhosis using vitamin A–coupled liposomes to deliver siRNA against a collagen-specific chaperone

(2008) Yasushi Sato et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Hepatic Stellate Cells: Protean, Multifunctional, and Enigmatic Cells of the Liver

(2008) Scott L. Friedman   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS