Cooperative interaction of CTGF and TGF-β in animal models of fibrotic disease.

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Published in Fibrogenesis Tissue Repair on February 01, 2011

Authors

Qingjian Wang1, William Usinger, Blake Nichols, Julia Gray, Leon Xu, Todd W Seeley, Mitch Brenner, Guangjie Guo, Weihua Zhang, Noelynn Oliver, Al Lin, David Yeowell

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1: FibroGen Inc,, 409 Illinois St,, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA. tseeley@fibrogen.com.

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