Mark A. Zern

Overview

Best Publications

• In vitro and in vivo association of transforming growth factor-beta 1 with hepatic fibrosis.

  Mark J. Czaja;Francis R. Weiner;Kathleen C. Flanders;Marie-Adele Giambrone

  561
  Citations

• Hepatic stellate cells: a target for the treatment of liver fibrosis.

  Jian Wu;Mark A. Zern

  379
  Citations

• Reversal of hyperglycemia in mice by using human expandable insulin-producing cells differentiated from fetal liver progenitor cells

  Michal Zalzman;Sanjeev Gupta;Ranjit K. Giri;Irina Berkovich

  364
  Citations

• Phagocytosis of apoptotic bodies by hepatic stellate cells induces NADPH oxidase and is associated with liver fibrosis in vivo

  Shan‐Shan Zhan;Joy X. Jiang;Jian Wu;Charles Halsted

  331
  Citations

• Collagen chain mRNAs in isolated heart cells from young and adult rats

  Mahboubeh Eghbali;Mark J. Czaja;Maria Zeydel;Francis R. Weiner

  295
  Citations

• Liver fibrosis causes downregulation of miRNA-150 and miRNA-194 in hepatic stellate cells, and their overexpression causes decreased stellate cell activation

  Senthil Kumar Venugopal;Joy Jiang;Tae-Hun Kim;Yong Li

  288
  Citations

• SYBR Green real-time telomeric repeat amplification protocol for the rapid quantification of telomerase activity

  Henning Wege;Michael S. Chui;Hai T. Le;Julie M. Tran

  283
  Citations

• Localization of types I, III and IV collagen mRNAs in rat heart cells by in situ hybridization

  M. Eghbali;O. O. Blumenfeld;S. Seifter;P. M. Buttrick

  271
  Citations

• Differentiation and Enrichment of Hepatocyte‐Like Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells In Vitro and In Vivo

  Yuyou Duan;Andreea Catana;Ying Meng;Naoki Yamamoto

  269
  Citations

• Rapamycin inhibits hepatic stellate cell proliferation in vitro and limits fibrogenesis in an in vivo model of liver fibrosis.

  Jianliang Zhu;Jian Wu;Edward Frizell;Shu-Ling Liu

  266
  Citations

• Ito-cell gene expression and collagen regulation

  Francis R. Weiner;Marie‐Adele ‐A Giambrone;Mark J. Czaja;Anish Shah

  261
  Citations

• Targeting hepatocytes for drug and gene delivery: emerging novel approaches and applications.

  Jian Wu;Michael H Nantz;Mark A Zern

  257
  Citations

• γ‐interferon treatment inhibits collagen deposition in murine schistosomiasis

  M. J. Czaja;F. R. Weiner;S. Takahashi;M. A. Giambrone

  253
  Citations

• Fish Oil, Alcohol, and Liver Pathology: Role of Cytochrome P450 2E1:

  M. Morimoto;Mark A Zern;A. L. Hagbjork;M. Ingelman-Sundberg

  247
  Citations

• Telomerase reconstitution immortalizes human fetal hepatocytes without disrupting their differentiation potential

  Henning Wege;Hai T. Le;Michael S. Chui;Li Liu

  247
  Citations

• EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION AND HEDGEHOG SIGNALING ACTIVATION ARE ASSOCIATED WITH CHEMORESISTANCE AND INVASION OF HEPATOMA SUBPOPULATIONS

  Xiaoli Chen;Shilpa Lingala;Shiva Khoobyari;Jan Nolta

  241
  Citations

• Differentiation of human and mouse embryonic stem cells along a hepatocyte lineage.

  Hitoshi Shirahashi;Jian Wu;Naoki Yamamoto;Andreea Catana

  233
  Citations

• A role for tissue transglutaminase in hepatic injury and fibrogenesis, and its regulation by NF-kappaB

  Ahmed Mirza;Shu Ling Liu;Eduardo Frizell;Jianling Zhu

  231
  Citations

• Vitamin E therapy of acute CCl4‐induced hepatic injury in mice is associated with inhibition of nuclear factor kappa B binding

  Shu Ling Liu;Silvia Degli Esposti;Tony Yao;Anna Mae Diehl

  221
  Citations

• Differentiation and characterization of metabolically functioning hepatocytes from human embryonic stem cells.

  YuYou Duan;Xiaochui Ma;W. E I Zou;Charles Wang

  211
  Citations