Human and experimental evidence supporting a role for osteopontin in alcoholic hepatitis
Oriol Morales‐Ibanez, Marlene Domínguez, Sung H. Ki, Miguel Marcos, Javier F. Chaves, Eric Nguyen‐Khac, Hakim Houchi, Silvia Affò, Pau Sancho‐Bru, José Altamirano, Javier Michelena, Juan Carlos García‐Pagán, Juan G. Abraldes, Vicente Arroyo, Juan Caballería, Francisco‐Javier Laso, Bin Gao, Ramón Bataller – 31 May 2013 – We identified, in the transcriptome analysis of patients with alcoholic hepatitis (AH), osteopontin (OPN) as one of the most up‐regulated genes. Here, we used a translational approach to investigate its pathogenic role.