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Effects of AT1- and beta-adrenergic receptor antagonists on TGF-beta1-induced fibrosis in transgenic mice.
European journal of clinical investigation - 1 Oct 2009
Seeland U, Schäffer A, Selejan S, Hohl M, Reil J-C, Müller P, Rosenkranz S, Böhm M
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BACKGROUND: Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) is involved in interstitial remodelling promoting collagen synthesis and suppressing collagen degradation by inhibition of collagenases. TGF-beta1 mediates angiotensin II-dependent effects and modulates beta1-adrenergic signalling. To study the effect of neuroendocrine antagonism on TGF-beta-induced hypertrophic and fibrotic phenotype, we treated TGF-beta1...
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