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. 2020 Sep 1;319(3):H610-H612.
doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00598.2020. Epub 2020 Aug 14.

Injury-specific inflammation leads to organ-specific fibrosis

Sirin Nazan Cakir  1 , Lisandra E de Castro Brás  1
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Injury-specific inflammation leads to organ-specific fibrosis

Sirin Nazan Cakir et al. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. .
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Keywords: fibrosis; inflammation; organ specificity.

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Diagram showing different types of fibroproliferative diseases across organs. For each organ, example of resident cell types is depicted that during tissue healing would directly interact with inflammatory cells. Image created with BioRender.com.
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