Fibrotic interstitial lung disease (fibrotic ILD) entails a spectrum of different clinical entities characterised by an ...

Figure 1. Maximum-intensity projections and fusion images of [68 Ga]Ga-FAPI PET/CT from representative patients of different NICM subtypes. PET scans were classified into three columns, including ...

Blood tests, ultrasounds, and MRIs often fail to detect the earliest changes in cardiomyopathy, when fibroblasts activate and start the scarring process. Since early detection is crucial for the best ...

Fibroblasts build and maintain the extracellular matrix, or physical scaffolding for cells, in the connective tissues within the body. It is believed that cancerous tumors can recruit nearby ...

Patupilone in chemotherapy-pretreated patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) receiving nutritional support and intensive diarrhea management: A phase I multicenter trial No significant ...

Researchers from Nanjing Medical University presented data from a study that aimed to investigate the role of amphiregulin (AREG) in activating intestinal fibroblasts and driving fibrogenesis.

Fibrosis, or scarring, is a well-recognized response to tissue injury throughout the human body. 1 More than 40% of all deaths in the industrialized world are attributable to scarring of the heart, ...

Reston, VA—A new radiotracer, 68 Ga-FAP-2286, has been found to be more effective than the most commonly used nuclear medicine cancer imaging radiotracer, 18 F-FDG. In a study published in the March ...

A new PET/CT imaging technique that visualizes activated fibroblasts in the heart muscle enables early detection of multiple forms of cardiomyopathy, according to research presented at the Society of ...