Myofibroblasts are specialised contractile cells that emerge during wound healing to mediate tissue contraction and extracellular matrix remodelling. They derive from resident fibroblasts and other ...

(Medical Xpress)—An international team of researchers has found that the drug navitoclax can induce apoptosis (self-destruction) in myofibroblasts in mice, reducing the spread of fibrosis in ...

When it comes to repairing injured tissue, specialized cells in the body known as fibroblasts are called into action. Fibroblasts give rise to healing cells called myofibroblasts, which generally is ...

Public Health Relevance Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is fatal lung disorder for which no U.S. FDA-approved drugs currently exist. This project will lead to the development of novel ...

Congratulations to group alumni Drs. Andrea Gonzalez Rodriguez and Joe Grim, along with current postdoc Megan Schroeder and graduate student Cierra Walker, who published recently in The FASEB Journal ...