ECM Remodeling Leads to Fibrosis (IMAGE)

Rockefeller University Press

ECM Remodeling Leads to Fibrosis

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Compared with a control skin wound (left), the ECM within a wound containing increased numbers of myofibroblasts (right) is more consistently organized into linear fibers, which increases the activation and release of a growth factor that promotes fibrosis.

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Klingberg et al., 2014

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