Abstract:Hepatic fibrosis is a disturbance of repair responses after liver injury, but the underlying mechanism is not clear. To establish the animal models which mirror human liver fibrosis is an important basis for further study of the pathogenesis and drug treatment of liver fibrosis. Thus, this review briefly summarizes current methods of establishing hepatic fibrosis models in mice, including the paradigms induced via cholestasis, toxic substances, metabolic disorders, alcohol administration, immune abnormalities and schistosomiasis, which can serve as a reference for further researches on hepatic fibrosis.