Contributors
Madalina-Gabriela Taru: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original
draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Cristian Tefas:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8263-7923
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: SupervisionRole:
Writing – review & editing
Lidia Neamti: Role: Data curationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Iulia Minciuna: Role: Data curationRole: Visualization
Vlad Taru: Role: Data curationRole: Visualization
Anca Maniu: Role: Data curation
Ioana Rusu: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Bobe Petrushev: Role: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Lucia Maria Procopciuc: Role: Visualization
Dan Corneliu Leucuta: Role: Formal analysisRole: SoftwareRole: Visualization
Bogdan Procopet: Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review &
editing
Silvia Ferri: Role: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Monica Lupsor-Platon:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7918-1956
Role: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Horia Stefanescu:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4034-5471
Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Jee-Fu Huang: Role: Editor
Journal
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS One
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLOS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
23
May
2024
Publication date Collection: 2024
Volume: 19
Issue: 5
Electronic Location Identifier: e0303971
Affiliations
[1
]
Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca,
Cluj, Romania
[2
]
Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca,
Cluj, Romania
[3
]
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
[4
]
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine III, Medical University
of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
[5
]
Division of Internal Medicine, Hepatobiliary and Immunoallergic Diseases, IRCCS Azienda
Ospedaliero—Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, TAIWAN
Author notes
Competing Interests: NO authors have competing interests.
‡ MGT and CT are equally to this work as shared first authorship.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-24-01692
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303971
PMC ID: 11115280
PubMed ID: 38781158
SO-VID: b13e40e5-6147-4f0e-8075-68506c9d63d0
Copyright © © 2024 Taru et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
History
Date
received
: 13
February
2024
Date
accepted
: 4
May
2024
Page count
Figures: 5,
Tables: 6,
Pages: 17
Funding
Funded by:
UEFISCDI, the Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development,
and Innovation Funding
Award ID: PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1140
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7918-1956
Monica Lupsor-Platon
Funded by:
funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100022424, Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development, Higher Education and Information
Society;
Award Recipient
:
Madalina-Gabriela Taru
Funded by:
University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hațieganu” Cluj-Napoca
Award ID: 35167/17.12.2021
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8263-7923
Cristian Tefas
This work was partially funded from the grants number PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1140 from
UEFISCDI, the Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development,
and Innovation Funding and 35167/17.12.2021 from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy
“Iuliu Hațieganu” Cluj-Napoca. Madalina-Gabriela Taru is financed by The Study Loans
and Scholarships Agency, The Ministry of Education, Romania.
Categories
Subject:
Research Article
Subject:
Biology and Life Sciences
Subject:
Developmental Biology
Subject:
Fibrosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Subject:
Liver Diseases
Subject:
Cirrhosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Subject:
Liver Diseases
Subject:
Fatty Liver
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Surgical and Invasive Medical Procedures
Subject:
Biopsy
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Subject:
Liver Diseases
Subject:
Liver Fibrosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Endocrinology
Subject:
Endocrine Disorders
Subject:
Diabetes Mellitus
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Medical Conditions
Subject:
Metabolic Disorders
Subject:
Diabetes Mellitus
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Subject:
Anatomical Pathology
Subject:
Cytopathology
Subject:
Steatosis
Subject:
Medicine and Health Sciences
Subject:
Diagnostic Medicine
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