Macrophages in the infarcted heart acquire a fibrogenic phenotype, expressing matricellular proteins, but do not undergo fibroblast conversion
Ruoshui Li, Anis Hanna, Shuaibo Huang, Silvia C. Hernández, Izabela Tuleta, Akihiko Kubota, Claudio Humeres, Bijun Chen, Yang Liu, Deyou Zheng, Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis
Topics & Concepts
Matricellular proteinFibroblastPhenotypeCell biologyChemistryBiologyExtracellular matrixBiochemistryIn vitroGeneCardiac Fibrosis and RemodelingSignaling Pathways in DiseasePeptidase Inhibition and Analysis