Tendon is an intricately organized connective tissue that efficiently transfers muscle force to
the bony skeleton. Its structure, function, and physiology reflect the extreme, repetitive …

The importance of proper skin wound healing becomes evident when our body's repair
mechanisms fail, leading to either non-healing (chronic) wounds or excessive repair …

Coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2) has
rapidly spread across the globe affecting 213 countries or territories with greater than six …

The vascular adventitia acts as a biological processing center for the retrieval, integration,
storage, and release of key regulators of vessel wall function. It is the most complex …

It is generally accepted that fibroblast-to-myofibroblast differentiation represents a key event
during wound healing and tissue repair. The high contractile force generated by …

Tissues lose mechanical integrity when our body is injured. To rapidly restore mechanical
stability a multitude of cell types can jump into action by acquiring a reparative phenotype …

Purpose: SARS-CoV-2 infection induces in some patients a condition called long-COVID-19,
herein post-COVID-19 (PC), which persists for longer than the negative oral-pharyngeal …

The development of novel three-dimensional cell culture platforms for the culture of aortic
valvular interstitial cells (VICs) has been fraught with many challenges. Although the most …

The COVID‐19 pandemic rapidly spread around the world following the first reports in
Wuhan City, China in late 2019. The disease, caused by the novel SARS‐CoV‐2 virus, is …

Contractile myofibroblasts are responsible for the irreversible alterations of the lung
parenchyma that hallmark pulmonary fibrosis. In response to lung injury, a variety of different …