Fatma El Zahraa Ammar Mohamed, Bedair Dewidar, Tao Lin, Matthias P Ebert, Steven Dooley, Nadja M Meindl-Beinker, Seddik Hammad
Transforming growth factor (TGF)-β and toll-like receptors (TLRs) have been shown to independently modulate the proliferation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Since a direct cross-talk between these two signalling pathways in HCC has not been clearly described before, we aimed here to explore the possibility of such interaction. A human HCC tissue array (n = 20 vs. four control samples), human HCC samples (n = 10) and steatohepatitis-driven murine HCC samples (control, NASH and HCC; n = 6/group) were immunostained for TGFβR1, pSMAD2, TRAF6, IRAK1 and PCNA...
February 8, 2024: International Journal of Experimental Pathology