Interleukin-18 signaling promotes activation of hepatic stellate cells in mouse liver fibrosis.

"data availability statement single cell sequencing data are deposited in gene expression omnibus with accession number gse132662 ( https://www ncbi nlm nih gov/geo/query/acc cgi? data availability statement single cell sequencing data are deposited in gene expression omnibus with accession number gse132662"

"CONFLICTS OF INTEREST Frank Tacke advises and received grants from Gilead. He consults for Novo Nordisk and Pfizer. He is on the speakers’ bureau for Falk and AbbVie. He received grants from Inventiva, Bristol‐Myers Squibb, and Allergan. Hal M. Hoffman consults for Novartis."

"FUNDING INFORMATION This work was funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants R01 DK113592 to Hal M. Hoffman and Ariel E. Feldstein, U01 AA024206 to Ariel E. Feldstein, German Research Foundation (WR173/3‐1 TR285/10‐2 and SFB/TRR57) to Alexander Wree and Christian Trautwein, German Cancer Aid (Deutsche Krebshilfe 70113000) to Alexander Wree and Christian Trautwein, German Research Foundation (DFG‐Grant KA 5089/1‐1) to Benedikt Kaufmann. In addition, the project described was partially supported by the NIH grant UL1TR001442 of the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Funding information Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Grant/Award Number: KA 5089/1-1, SFB/ TRR57, TR285/10-2 and WR173/3-1; Deutsche Krebshilfe, Grant/Award Number: 70113000; Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Grant/Award Number: R01 DK113592, U01 AA024206 and UL1TR001442"