Relief from within: a peptide therapy for fibrosis
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Ex Vivo Corneal Organ Culture Model for Wound Healing Studies
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1University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. satamas@umaryland.edu
Science Translational Medicine
|June 1, 2012
Abstract:
A modified, natural peptide derived from the antiangiogenic molecule endostatin has the potential to become a breakthrough therapy for organ fibrosis (Yamaguchi et al., this issue).
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