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B cells tell scleroderma fibroblasts to produce collagen

In fibrosis fibroblasts are activated and overproduce collagen in a process with unknown drivers and equally unknown brakes that recently implicated a novel and surprising player, the B cell. B cells may be crucially involved in fibrosis in several ways: B cells may produce autoantibodies that can d...

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Autores principales: Daoussis, Dimitrios, Liossis, Stamatis-Nick C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24611177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar4392