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Tuesday, 03/31/2015 10:09:46 PM

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 10:09:46 PM

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>>Is FGEN the only one currently targeting CTGF for fibrosis?

To my knowledge, yes.

CTGF is clearly intimately involved with fibrosis, but I wouldn't call it a magic bullet. Fibrosis is very complex and there are weird feedback loops with e.g., TGF-beta.

The FGEN drug was able to reverse radiation-induced lung fibrosis in an animal model - as far as I know that is the only demonstration of reversal of fibrosis in the literature.


Peter

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