TF and hepatitis C virus infection: Investigations of emerging anti-fibrotic agents, such as monoclonal antibodies against regulators of fibrogenesis, Toll-like receptors, and caspase inhibitors, which incorporate endothelial biomarker analyses such as TF activity may generate important translational information, with implications for possible therapeutic approaches, that may further correlate the intersection of inflammatory responses to hepatitis C infection, liver fibrosis, and CVD risk [39].