Mechanical regulation of cardiac fibroblast profibrotic phenotypes

Cardiac fibroblasts are essential for beneficial myocardial healing but also cause detrimental adverse remodeling following myocardial infarction. The mechanical properties of the infarcted myocardium and border regions display temporal and spatial characteristics that regulate different aspects of the profibrotic cardiac fibroblast phenotypes.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Molecular Biology of the Cell

• Publication date

  2017-07-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1091/mbc.E17-01-0014PMID 28468977PMCID 5541838
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