Fibrosis researchers Stanley Hoffman, Ph.D. and Dhandapani Kuppuswamy, Ph.D. of the Medical University of South Carolina are authors on the Laboratory Investigation article. Cardiac fibrosis, an abnormal thickening of the heart wall leading to congestive heart failure, was not only halted but also reversed by a caveolin-1 surrogate peptide (CSD) in a preclinical model, report researchers...