Immune cells fight or cause liver disease

Sounds familiar? Professor Rifaat Safadi’s team from Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem has identified that the normal function of Neuroliglin 4 in the immune system is to fight cirrhosis of the liver. But in patients with Hepatitis or alcoholics, the cell changes and attacks the liver.
http://nocamels.com/2013/04/israeli-makes-breakthrough-discovery-in-liver-disease-treatment/

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