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Venous ulcer fibroblasts demonstrate decreased proliferative responses to growth factor stimulation, suggesting cellular senescence. However, the role of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) disease progression and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins in agonist-induced cellular proliferation is ill-defined. We hypothesize that CVI-induced fibroblast proliferative resistance to growth factors worsens with disease progression and is regulated by the composition of ECM.
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Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, H 578, MSB, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, 185 S Orange Ave, , Newark, NJ 07013, USA. lalbk@umdnj.edu
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