Extracellular anisotropic stresses trigger fibroblast transition into myofibroblasts by the mechanical self-reinforcement of cell–extracellular matrix interactions.

Biomedical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have decoded how mechanical forces drive cell behavior in fibrosis.

Mechanical stretch can activate long-lived changes in fibroblasts, increasing their contractility and initiating phenotypic transformations. This a...

Skin graft expansion techniques (mesh and micrograft) are widely used, but there is ample evidence that skin graft meshers do not provide their claimed expansion rates. Although this finding might not...

Skin graft expansion techniques (mesh and micrograft) are widely used, but there is ample evidence that skin graft meshers do not provide their claimed expansion rates. Although this finding might not...