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Functional studies reveal increased expression of ICAM-1 on induced patient-derived endothelial cells (iECs) and of β2-integrins on neutrophils that increase neutrophil adhesion and vascular transendothelial migration (TEM). Treatment with TNF inhibition improved systemic inflammation; and liver fibrosis resolved on treatment with the Src kinase inhibitor dasatinib. These findings reveal a critical role for Lyn kinase in modulating inflammatory signals, regulating microvascular permeability and neutrophil recruitment, and in promoting hepatic fibrosis.","journal":"medRxiv","year":2022,"id":301948,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9452,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":531750,"name":"Guibin Chen","orcid":"0000-0001-5520-1780","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":334106,"name":"Dan Yang","orcid":"0009-0002-6428-9440","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":993461,"name":"Tomáš Brdička","orcid":"0000-0002-1560-4398","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":696481,"name":"Natasha M. 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