Abstracts tagged "fibrosis"

Abstract Number: 752 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Potential Roles of Toll-like Receptor 4 in the Murine Models of Systemic Sclerosis
Takehiro Takahashi, Yoshihide Asano, Yohei Ichimura, Tetsuo Toyama, Takashi Taniguchi, Shinji Noda, Kaname Akamata and Shinichi Sato, Dermatology, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Bleomycin (BLM)-induced fibrosis model and tight skin mice (TSK/+) model are well-established experimental murine models of human systemic sclerosis (SSc). Growing evidence has demonstrated…