New Insights into Systemic Sclerosis

• Kolejni autorzy: Tomcik, Michal (Redaktor)
• Format: Elektroniczne Rozdział
• Język: angielski
• Wydane: IntechOpen 2019
• Hasła przedmiotowe: Immunology; erectile dysfunction, stress, malnutrition, nitric oxide, kidney, body composition
• Dostęp online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) is an incurable connective tissue disease of unknown etiology. Three key processes play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis: immune dysregulation and inflammation, endothelial injury and vasculopathy, and fibrosis. Tissue fibrosis is the dominant and characteristic fe...