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270A AASLD ABSTRACTS HEPATOLOGY, October, 2015<br />

Hans Huber - Consulting: MiNA Therapeutics; Stock Shareholder: Merck & Co<br />

Robert Habib - Board Membership: MiNA Therapeutics Ltd; Management Position:<br />

MiNA Therapeutics Ltd; Stock Shareholder: MiNA Therapeutics Ltd<br />

Pål Sætrom - Patent Held/Filed: MiNA Therapeutics, Ltd; Stock Shareholder:<br />

MiNA Therapeutics, Ltd<br />

Nagy Habib - Board Membership: EMcision Limited, Omnicyte Limited, Apterna<br />

Limited, MiNA Therapeutics Ltd; Patent Held/Filed: EMcision Limited, Omnicyte<br />

Limited; Stock Shareholder: EMcision Limited, Omnicyte Limited, Apterna Limited,<br />

MiNA Therapeutics Ltd<br />

The following authors have nothing to disclose: Kai-Wen Huang, Anjaneyulu<br />

Muragundla, Aravindakshan Jayaprakash, Prashant Vadnal, John Rossi<br />

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Fibrosis is not just fibrosis - Extracellular matrix turnover<br />

is markedly different in two types of viral hepatitis, suggesting<br />

different fibrotic representations<br />

Mette J. Nielsen 1,2 , Morten A. Karsdal 1 , Konstantin Kazankov 3 ,<br />

Aleksander Krag 2 , Diana J. Leeming 1 , Jacob George 4 , Henning<br />

Gronbaek 3 , Detlef Schuppan 5,6 ; 1 Nordic Bioscience A/S, Herlev,<br />

Denmark; 2 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,<br />

Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark,<br />

Odense, Denmark; 3 Department of Medicine V, Aarhus University<br />

Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 4 Storr Liver Unit, Westmead Millennium<br />

Institute, Westmead Hospital and University of Sydney,<br />

Sydney, NSW, Australia; 5 Institute of Translational Immunology,<br />

University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany; 6 Division of Gastroenterology,<br />

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical<br />

School, Boston, MA<br />

Background and aim: Fibrosis is the result of a dysregulated<br />

tissue remodelling leading to excessive and abnormal accumulation<br />

of extracellular matrix (ECM). The developmental pattern<br />

of fibrosis depends on the underlying aetiology causing the<br />

fibrosis such as; portal-portal, portal-central, or central-central<br />

septa, albeit the molecular composition and turnover remain<br />

to be investigated. In this study we investigated the level of<br />

ECM remodelling in two seemingly similar types of viral hepatitis,<br />

namely hepatitis B and C. Methods: In a cross-sectional<br />

study design, specific protein fragments of matrix metalloprotease<br />

degraded type I, III, IV and VI collagen (C1M, C3M,<br />

C4M, C6M) and type III and IV collagen formation (Pro-C3<br />

and P4NP7S) were assessed in plasma from 403 chronic<br />

hepatitis C patients and 197 chronic hepatitis B patients by<br />

specific ELISAs. The grade of inflammation and fibrosis was<br />

scored according to the Metavir Activity and Fibrosis Scoring<br />

systems based on liver biopsy. Results: Plasma levels of<br />

P4NP7S, C3M, C4M, and C6M were significantly elevated<br />

in HBV compared to HCV (p

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