TABLE 2.

lncRNA as ceRNA in liver fibrosis.

lncRNAs	miRNA	Mechanism of interaction	Targets	References
lncRNA NEAT1	miR-122/miR-506/miR-129-5p	lncRNA NEAT1 act as sponge of miR-122/miR-506/miR-129-5p	KLF6/GLI3/SOCS2	Yu et al. (2017b); Jin et al. (2019); Ye et al. (2020)
lncRNA SNHG7	miR-29b/miR-378a-3p	lncRNA SNHG7 act as sponge of miR-29b/miR-378a-3p	DNMT3A/DVL2	32893175 Yu et al. (2019); Xie et al. (2021)
lncRNA H19	miR-148a	lncRNA H19 act as sponge of miR-148a	USP4	Zhu et al. (2019)
lncRNA Gm5091	miR-27b/23b/24	lncRNA Gm5091 act as sponge of miR-27b/23b/24	—	Zhou et al. (2018)
lncRNA TUG1	miR-29b	lncRNA TUG1 act as sponge of miR-29b	—	Han et al. (2018)
lincRNA-p21	miR-181b/miR-17-5p	lncRNA lincRNA-p21 act as sponge of miR-181b/miR-17-5p	PTEN/β-catenin	Yu et al. (2016); Yu et al. (2017a)
lncRNA ATB	miR-200a	lncRNA ATB act as sponge of miR-200a	β-catenin	Fu et al. (2017)