STAB1 and Hepatic fibrosis: Since our previous studies have shown that Stab1 and Stab2 can compensate each other to a certain degree, regarding scavenging of ligands like POSTN and TGFBi [8,22], we tested whether a pro-fibrotic stimulus adding on single Stabilin deficiency might trigger pronounced liver fibrosis and ligand deposition comparable to Stabilin-double-deficient mice.