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Gerd-Willem Urban
Researcher at RWTH Aachen University
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Gerd-Willem Urban is an academic researcher from RWTH Aachen University. The author has contributed to research in topics: microRNA & Hepatic stellate cell. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 664 citations.
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Micro-RNA profiling reveals a role for miR-29 in human and murine liver fibrosis
Christoph Roderburg,Gerd-Willem Urban,Kira Bettermann,Mihael Vucur,Henning W. Zimmermann,Sabine Schmidt,Jörn Janssen,Christiane Koppe,Percy A. Knolle,Mirco Castoldi,Mirco Castoldi,Frank Tacke,Christian Trautwein,Tom Luedde +13 more
TL;DR: The data indicate that miR‐29 mediates the regulation of liver fibrosis and is part of a signaling nexus involving TGF‐β‐ and NF‐κB–dependent down‐regulation of miR-29 family members in HSC with subsequent up‐ regulation of extracellular matrix genes.