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TGF-betas and TGF-beta receptors in atherosclerosis.
Cytokine & growth factor reviews - 1 Jan 2000
McCaffrey T A
Abstract excerpt
Based on diverse evidence in animals and humans, it has been hypothesized that atherosclerosis, and other injury-induced hyperplasias such as restenosis, may result from a failure in endogenous inhibitory systems that normally limit wound repair and induce regression of wound repair cells. A key defect in one of these inhibitory pathways, the TGF-beta system, has been identified and characterized in both animal...
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