Human skin culture as an ex vivo model for assessing the fibrotic effects of insulin-like growth factor binding proteins
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Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a connective tissue disease of unknown etiology. A hallmark of SSc is fibrosis of the skin and internal organs. We recently demonstrated increased expression of IGFBP-3 and IGFBP-5 in primary cultures of fibroblasts from the skin of... ...
