Fibroblasts play a central role in maintaining healthy tissue structures, as well as in the development and progression of ...

Fibroblasts play a central role in maintaining healthy tissue structures, as well as in the development and progression of diseases. For a long time, these specialized connective tissue cells were ...

For most soft and hard connective tissues (bone, cartilage, tendon, cornea, blood vessels, and skin) collagen fibrils and their networks function as ECM, the highly organized, three-dimensional ...

Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have discovered a previously unknown type of connective tissue cells that surround cancer cells in pancreatic tumors. The newly discovered cells counteract ...

Baylor Medicine’s Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) program offers specialized and multidisciplinary care ... various disorders such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), connective tissue disease-ILD ...