Systemic Sclerosis Research Indicates Estrogen May Play Positive Role, Potentially Leading to Treatments
Researchers at Paris Descartes University, France, recently presented the results of a study investigating the effects of estrogen in the development of experimental dermal fibrosis and on the response of profibrotic cells to the major fibrosis cytokine-transforming growth factor (TGF)-β. The presentation, “Estrogens Inhibit the Profibrotic Effects of…