Connective tissue growth factor causes p
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Sonoko Chujo; Fumiaki Shirasaki; Shigeru Kawara; Yutaka Inagaki; Takuro Kinbara;
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Skin fibrotic disorders such as systemic sclerosis (SSc) are characterized by an excessive production of extracellular matrix (ECM) and understood to develop under the influence of certain growth factors. Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is a cysteine‐rich mitogenic peptide that i