The contribution of stellate cells—whose markers of the activated form are Acta2, Col1a1, Tagln, Col1a2, Col3a1, Sparc, and Rbp1—changed significantly only during infection with C. sinensis compared to the control (pairwise Kruskal–Wallis test with Benjamini–Hochberg correction, Padj = 0.030) (Fig 5A). Here, TAGLN is linked to infection.