Pancreatic cancer cells are known for being hard to treat, partly because they change the environment around them to block ...

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Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have demonstrated that blocking macropinocytosis reshapes the tumor microenvironment, ...

During fibrosis, fibroblasts — connective tissue cells that synthesize the extracellular matrix — “become somehow dysregulated, either by injury or by mutation,” he added. “These fibroblast cells ...

The findings suggest that connective tissue, and extracellular matrix proteins like lumican, operate outside of cells normally, but as disease or damage break down ECM, get sucked into and ...

The findings suggest that connective tissue, and extracellular matrix proteins like lumican, operate outside of cells normally, but as disease or damage break down ECM, get sucked into and ...

From alveolar injury to extracellular matrix accumulation, the complex biology of pulmonary fibrosis is being unraveled ...

Blood is fascinating. Many people learn at school that its function is to transport oxygen and nutrients around the body and remove waste products. But blood has many more functions, including defence ...

QGel’s Synthetic Matrix QGel develops 3D synthetic analogs of the extracellular microenvironments in which a variety of specific cell types, from cell lines to patient-derived tissue, grow.

More information: Hyeonji Kim et al, Extracellular matrix-based sticky sealants for scar-free corneal tissue reconstruction, Biomaterials (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2022.121941 ...