Article
A critical role of AREG for bleomycin-induced skin fibrosis
2021-01-21
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> We report our discovery of an important player in the development of skin fibrosis, a hallmark of scleroderma. Scleroderma is a fibrotic disease, affecting 70,000 to 150,000 Americans. Fibrosis is a pathological wound healing process that produces an excessive extracellular matrix to interfere with normal organ function. Fibrosis contributes to nearly half of human mortality. Scleroderma has het...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c43e40ee-8e9d-57a1-bda6-da4d19b0e043
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.01.20.427509
