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Hypoxia drives the transition of human dermal fibroblasts to a myofibroblast-like phenotype via the TGF-β1/Smad3 pathway.
International journal of molecular medicine - 1 Jan 2017
Zhao Bin, Guan Hao, Liu Jia-Qi, Zheng Zhao, Zhou Qin, Zhang Jian, Su Lin-Lin, Hu Da-Hai
Abstract excerpt
Keloids, partially considered as benign tumors, are characterized by the overgrowth of fibrosis beyond the boundaries of the wound and are regulated mainly by transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1, which induces the transition of fibroblasts to myofibroblasts. Hypoxia is an important driving force in the development of lung and liver fibrosis by activating hypoxia inducible factor-1α and stimulating...
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