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Myofibroblastic differentiation leads to hyaluronan accumulation through reduced hyaluronan turnover.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 1 Oct 2004
Jenkins Robert H, Thomas Gareth J, Williams John D, Steadman Robert
Abstract excerpt
During the initiation and progression of fibrosis there is extensive differentiation of cells to a myofibroblastic phenotype. Because the synthesis of hyaluronan (HA) was recently linked to oncogenic epithelial-mesenchymal transformation, the present study investigated whether increased HA synthe...
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