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It is known that cellular injury elicits an activation of the purinergic signaling, mainly by the P2X7 receptor; however, the role of P2Y receptors in the onset of liver pathology such as fibrosis has not been explored. Hence, we used mice treated with the hepatotoxin CCl4 to implement a reversible model of liver fibrosis to evaluate the expression and function of the P2Y2 receptor (P2Y2R). Fibrotic livers showed an enhanced expression of P2Y2R that eliminated its zonal distribution. Hepatocytes from CCl4-treated mice showed an exacerbated ERK-phosphorylated response to the P2Y2R-specific agonist, UTP. Cell proliferation was also enhanced in the fibrotic livers. Hepatic transcriptional analysis by microarrays, upon CCl4 administration, showed that P2Y2 activation regulated diverse pathways, revealing complex action mechanisms. 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