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Researchers identify new pathway for preventing cardiac fibrosis
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Researchers identify new pathway for preventing cardiac fibrosis

by Greg Glasgow, CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have discovered a new mechanism for slowing scarring of heart tissue—a process known as cardiac fibrosis. “Fibrosis of the heart occurs in response to a variety of stresses,” says the study’s corresponding author, Timothy McKinsey, Ph.D., professor of...