[Because SCF induces in mast cells proliferation and release of both fibrogenic factors and TNF-alpha, the described interaction between liver stroma and mast cells represents an auto-stimulatory loop, which may explain the progressive and persistent character of liver fibrosis associated with chronic inflammations or infections.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE