FIBROSIS

Fibrosis is the formation of fibrous connective tissue in response to injury. It is characterized by the accumulation of extracellular matrix components, particularly collagen, at the site of injury ⁽¹⁾, and is a common pathological process in many chronic diseases or injuries ⁽²⁾.

Numerous processes, (including inflammation, myofibroblast activation, and endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition), and Several signal transduction pathways, (such as transforming growth factor (TGF)-β, Wingless/Int (WNT), and more recently yes-associated protein 1 (YAP)/transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-binding motif (TAZ) signaling), and interplay between multiple pleiotropic genes, including TGF-β, VEGF, PDGF, EGF and connective tissue growth factor play a role in the establishment and progression of fibrosis ^(3,4,5).

The TGF-β, WNT, and YAP/TAZ signaling pathways converge ⁽⁵⁾ .

FIBROSIS AND ORGANS

As a long-lasting pathological phenomenon, fibrosis occurs in various tissues and organs, more often in heart, lung, kidney, liver, skin and less frequently in other tissues and organs such as pancreas, intestine, eye, nerve system, mediastinum, retroperitoneum, joint and tendon (arthrofibrosis) ⁽²⁾.

(1) Murtha LA et al. The Processes and Mechanisms of Cardiac and Pulmonary Fibrosis. Front Physiol. (2017);8:777.

(2) Li X et al. Drugs and Targets in Fibrosis. Front Pharmacol. (2017);8:855.

(3) Falke LL et al. Diverse origins of the myofibroblast—implications for kidney fibrosis. Nat Rev Nephrol. (2015);11(4):233-44.

(4) Ng HH et al. Relaxin and extracellular matrix remodeling: Mechanisms and signaling pathways. Mol Cell Endocrinol. (2019);487:59-65.

(5) Piersma B et al. Signaling in Fibrosis: TGF-β, WNT, and YAP/TAZ Converge. Front Med (Lausanne). (2015);2:59.

FIBROSIS SIGNALING PATHWAY BIOMARKER LIST

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Species : Homo sapiens (human)

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Species : Mus musculus (mouse)

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Species : Rattus norvegicus (rat)

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Species : Sus Scrofa (Pig)

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