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The Scar-in-a-Jar: In Vitro Fibrosis Model for Anti-Fibrotic Drug Testing.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2021
Stebler Simon, Raghunath Michael
Abstract excerpt
Excessive deposition of type I collagen follows in the wake of chronic inflammation processes in dysregulated tissue healing and causes fibrosis that can ultimately lead to organ failure. While the development of antifibrotic drugs is targeting various upstream events in collagen matrix formation (synthesis, secretion, deposition, stabilization, remodeling), the evaluation of drug effects would use as net...
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