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Changes in cardiac resident fibroblast physiology and phenotype in aging.
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology - 1 Oct 2018
Trial JoAnn, Cieslik Katarzyna A
Abstract excerpt
The cardiac fibroblast plays a central role in tissue homeostasis and in repair after injury. With aging, dysregulated cardiac fibroblasts have a reduced capacity to activate a canonical transforming growth factor-β-Smad pathway and differentiate poorly into contractile myofibroblasts. That results in the formation of an insufficient scar after myocardial infarction. In contrast, in the uninjured aged heart,...
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