A critical role of AREG for bleomycin-induced skin fibrosis
Abstract We report our discovery of an important player in the development of skin fibrosis, a hallmark of scleroderma. Scleroderma is a fibrotic disease, affecting 70,000 to 150,000 Americans. Fibrosis is a pathological wound healing process that produces an excessive extracellular matrix to interf...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-02-01
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Series: | Cell & Bioscience |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13578-021-00553-0 |