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When the researchers analyzed data from humans with pancreatic cancer, they discovered something similar: the higher the levels of HDAC1 in the fibrotic tissue around a patient's tumor, the worse their outcome.

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2023

As a result, these discoveries raise fundamental questions for the treatment of patients with fibrotic liver disease.

From Science Daily • Sep. 28, 2023

Drugs treating fibrotic lung disease after COVID-19 are currently undergoing clinical trials.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2022

In both diseases, the airways are less compliant and they are stiff or fibrotic.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

For the most part, the collapsed vessels atrophy and become fibrotic remnants, existing in the mature circulatory system as ligaments of the abdominal wall and liver.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013