New research led by Unity Health Toronto that examines how fibroblast cells in the body are activated to cause fibrosis and organ scarring has been published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.

fibrosis, and cellular death and degeneration. Its role in PKD had never been examined before. Tsiokas speculated that by genetically deleting Fbxw7 in a mouse model used to study kidney function ...

New research has revealed that removing a protein called gasdermin D can protect the liver from inflammation and scarring in ...

Research led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in China has found that a gene called pancreatic progenitor cell ...

What we don't know is exactly how you go from a normal kidney to a cystic one." Leonidas Tsiokas, Ph.D., professor of cell biology ... to cystogenesis, fibrosis, and cellular death and degeneration.

Glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and lethal brain cancers, has a five-year survival rate of only 6.9%, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. While the relationship between ...

Deficiency of the pancreatic progenitor cell differentiation and proliferation factor gene was identified as a risk factor ...

Moreover, the cells and soluble factors participating in this response in liver are also similar to those in parenchymal injury to kidney, lung, or skin. Fibrosis occurs earliest in regions where ...