TGF‐β as a driver of fibrosis: physiological roles and therapeutic opportunities

EH Budi, JR Schaub, M Decaris, S Turner… - The Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Many chronic diseases are marked by fibrosis, which is defined by an abundance of
activated fibroblasts and excessive deposition of extracellular matrix, resulting in loss of …

Adipose Stem Cells in Modern-Day Ophthalmology

M Musa, M Zeppieri, ES Enaholo, C Salati… - Clinics and Practice, 2023 - mdpi.com
Stem cells (SCs) have evolved as an interesting and viable factor in ophthalmologic patient
care in the past decades. SCs have been classified as either embryonic, mesenchymal …

Evaluation of neuroprotective and immunomodulatory properties of mesenchymal stem cells in an ex vivo retinal explant model

É Reboussin, J Buffault, F Brignole-Baudouin… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Glaucoma is a blinding degenerative neuropathy in which the death of retinal
ganglion cells (RGCs) causes progressive loss of visual field and eventually vision …

Extracellular matrix remodelling in dental pulp tissue of carious human teeth through the prism of single-cell RNA sequencing

A Balic, D Perver, P Pagella, H Rehrauer… - International journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Carious lesions are bacteria-caused destructions of the mineralised dental tissues, marked
by the simultaneous activation of immune responses and regenerative events within the soft …

Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B deficiency in vascular smooth muscle cells promotes perivascular fibrosis following arterial injury

R Gogiraju, S Gachkar, D Velmeden… - Thrombosis and …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Background Smooth muscle cell (SMC) phenotype switching plays a central role during
vascular remodeling. Growth factor receptors are negatively regulated by protein tyrosine …

[HTML][HTML] A Long-Term Safety and Efficacy Report on Intravitreal Delivery of Adipose Stem Cells and Secretome on Visual Deficits After Traumatic Brain Injury

PK Rasiah, KA Jha, J Gentry… - … Vision Science & …, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Purpose: We compared intravitreal injection of human adipose stem cell concentrated
conditioned media (ASC-CCM) to injection of live ASCs for their long-term safety and …

Single-cell transcriptomics analysis reveals extracellular matrix remodelling in carious human dental pulp

A Balic, D Perver, P Pagella, H Rehrauer, B Stadlinger… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The carious lesion is a bacteria caused destruction of tooth mineralized matrices marked by
concurrent tissue reparative and immune responses in the dental pulp. While major …

The remarkable diversity of vascular smooth muscle in development and disease: a paradigm for mesenchymal cell types

MW Majesky - The Vasculome, 2022 - Elsevier
Single-cell transcriptomes and multiomics studies from normal, injured, and diseased
arteries show that vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) arise from multiple types of …