Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic, progressive, incurable lung disease, leading to irreversible lung tissue ...

understanding the fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition in cardiac cells as it relates to fibrotic disease and exploring the role of mechanotransduction in regulating the myofibroblast phenotype, and ...

This is the first evidence of in vivo lipo-to-myofibroblast transdifferentiation and its virtual prevention by RGZ, prompting us to conclude that administration of PPARγ agonists may be a novel ...

This important manuscript provides insights into the competition between Splicing Factor 1 (SF1) and Quaking (QKI) for binding at the ACUAA branch point sequence in a model intron, regulating exon ...

Expert Rev Clin Immunol. 2013;9(3):211-216. Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that commonly begins in early infancy, runs a course of exacerbations and remissions and is ...

Figure 2 provides a birds-eye view of the current and future trends in the management of severe OSD. Current management may not completely restore the functions and structure of the ocular surface ...

Skeletal stem cells have been isolated from various tissues, including periosteum and bone marrow, where they exhibit key functions in bone biology and hematopoiesis, respectively. The role of ...

Biomedical Engineering Conference at Imperial College London 2008. Kruidenier, L., et al., Myofibroblast matrix metalloproteinases activate the neutrophil chemoattractant CXCL7 from intestinal ...

Lin Han obtained his BE degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing, P. R. China, and his PhD degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the area of Bio- and Polymeric Materials. After ...

F.M. Yavitt, B.E. Kirkpatrick, M.R. Blatchley, K.F. Speckl, E. Mohagheghian, R. Moldovan, N. Wang, P.J. Dempsey and K.S. Anseth, “In situ modulation of intestinal ...