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Donia W Ahmed1, Matthew L Tan2, Yuchen Liu3

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Nature materials
|September 5, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

この研究は,早期の組織線維症が細胞外マトリックス (ECM) の変化でどのように始まるかを明らかにしています. 局所的なECMの硬化が 細胞の変化を誘発し 線維症の発症と疾患モデリングに 新たな洞察をもたらします

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