Description
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of fibrocytes, written by the main researchers in the field. It is aimed at a broad audience of scientists and clinicians with an interest in the role of circulating fibrocytes in the etiopathogenesis of different fibrosing disorders, atherosclerosis, autoimmunity, and cancer.
Table of ContentsIntroduction (R Bucala); Fibrocytes and Collagen Producing Cells of the Peripheral Blood (D Pilling); Regulatory Pathways of Fibrocyte Development (R Gomer); Immunoregulatory Pathways for Fibrocyte Differentiation (M Macka); Fibrocyte Differentiation Pathways (R M Strieter); Role of Fibrocytes in Wound Repair (E E Tredget); Fibrocytes in Asthma (S Mattoli); Fibrocytes in the Interstitial Lung Diseases (R M Strieter); Circulating Fibrocytes and Progression in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (M R J Kolb); Fibrocytes in Scleroderma Lung Disease (E Herzog); Fibrocytes in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (M L Entman); Fibrocytes in Renal Injury (T Wada); Fibrocytes in Hepatic Injury (D Brenner); Activated Fibrocytes in Rheumatoid Arthritis (E N Fish); Hematopoietic Origin of Skin Fibrocytes (M Abedi); Challenges in the Design of Therapies for Fibrosing Disorders (T L Born); Targeting Fibrocytes and Fibrogenic Pathways with Serum Amyloid P (M L Lupher).
