 Fibrosis
"Fibrosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Any pathological condition where fibrous connective tissue invades any organ, usually as a consequence of inflammation or other injury.
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D005355
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.355
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Fibrosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Fibrosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2005 | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 2006 | 0 | 7 | 7 | | 2007 | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 2008 | 0 | 9 | 9 | | 2009 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2010 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2012 | 0 | 6 | 6 | | 2013 | 2 | 5 | 7 | | 2014 | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 2015 | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 2016 | 5 | 9 | 14 | | 2017 | 4 | 24 | 28 | | 2018 | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 2019 | 7 | 19 | 26 | | 2020 | 4 | 18 | 22 | | 2021 | 2 | 22 | 24 | | 2022 | 0 | 34 | 34 | | 2023 | 0 | 32 | 32 | | 2024 | 7 | 12 | 19 | | 2025 | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 2026 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fibrosis" by people in Profiles.
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Delaunay M, Reges CR, Stafford P, Vagnozzi RJ, McKinsey TA. Cell Type-Specific Roles for BRD4 in Heart Failure. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2026 Sep 26; 28(1).
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Lu S, Noble T, Elkins J, Jolly AJ, Dubner AM, Jacot JG, Peña Castellanos B, Hardy EJ, Nemenoff RA, Moulton KS, Majesky MW, Weiser-Evans MCM. KLF4 in Smooth Muscle Cell-Derived Progenitor Cells Is Essential for Angiotensin II-Induced Cardiac Inflammation and Fibrosis. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2026 Oct; 46(10):e324849.
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Wang JC, Kim CN, Bhalla S, Scherschinski L, Gopinadhan A, Arul S, Sanchez D, Schriber TD, Apolonio ACM, Gülsuyu B, Öztürk MM, Andrews JP, Kim J, Jahromi BR, Niemelä M, Lehecka M, Poddar A, Wälchli T, Catapano JS, Sen RD, Levitt MR, Cooke DL, Narsinh K, Jha RM, Hashimoto T, Oh SP, Huang EJ, Chang EF, Lim DA, Abla AA, Yang AC, Nowakowski TJ, Lawton MT, Winkler EA. Cerebrovascular vulnerability and fibrosis in human brain aneurysms. Nat Neurosci. 2026 Aug; 29(8):1814-1825.
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Kasam RK, Vagnozzi RJ, Kuwabara Y, Johansen AKZ, Blair NS, Prasad V, Lin SJ, Rajput A, Nieman M, Molkentin JD. Selective expansion of cardiac macrophage subtypes distinguishes their functional roles in disease and homeostasis. J Clin Invest. 2026 Aug 03; 136(15).
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Timlin H, Koirala A, Rosenberg A, Adisa O, Atta MG, Kamel I, Gross M, Dasgupta A, Geetha D. Association between interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy (IFTA) on kidney biopsies and anti Ro60 antibody positivity in patients with lupus nephritis (LN). Lupus. 2026 Jul; 35(8):810-817.
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Hsiao YT, Yoshida Y, Tsuchimochi H, Tang J, Aung TM, Chang CH, Barinda AJ, Li Z, Othman NSB, Yoshizaki T, Ling Y, Okuda S, Abe M, Mizuno S, Takahashi S, Inomata T, Kioka H, Sakata Y, Maeda D, Matsue Y, Furihata T, Iwata H, Pearson JT, Otsu K, Walsh K, Ishigami A, Minamino T, Shimizu I. PCPE-1 promotes cardiac fibrosis with aging and obesity. JCI Insight. 2026 Jul 08; 11(13).
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Wang M, Ghazal R, Srinivas AN, Nguyen TTL, Murthy V, McNamara DM, Skime MK, Batzler A, Jenkins GD, Barlera S, Pileggi S, Mestroni L, Merlo M, Pinet F, Krejcí J, Chaloupka A, de Groote P, Weinshilboum RM, Tschumperlin DJ, Liu D, Pereira NL. Novel association of NAV3 with dilated cardiomyopathy and its role in cardiac fibrosis. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2026 Mar 01; 330(3):H686-H696.
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Liao Z, Chen G, Liu K, Ma S, Tang H, Li H, Yin T, Kamel IR, Lee JM, Wu D, Li Z. One-stop early noninvasive evaluation of renal allograft rejection and fibrosis: microstructural mapping via time-dependent diffusion MRI. EBioMedicine. 2025 Dec; 122:106034.
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Thaler R, Payne AN, Berry DJ, Abdel MP. New Clues to the Challenge of Knee Arthrofibrosis: From Molecules to Therapies. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2026 Jan 15; 34(2):e192-e197.
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Cardaci TD, Bastian AV, Roark K, Bullard BM, NeSmith MM, Unger CA, Price RL, Kubinak JL, Murphy EA, VanderVeen BN. Profibrotic immune cells and fibro-adipogenic progenitors contribute to skeletal muscle extracellular matrix remodeling and fibrosis in cancer cachexia. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol. 2025 10 01; 329(4):C1283-C1299.
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