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Antifibrotic therapies to control cardiac fibrosis
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Cardiac fibrosis occurs naturally after myocardial infarction. While the
initially formed fibrotic tissue prevents the infarcted heart tissue from
rupture, the progression of cardiac fibrosis continuously expands the size of
fibrotic tissue and causes cardiac function decrease. Cardiac fibrosis eventually
evolves the infarcted hearts into heart failure. Inhibiting cardiac fibrosis from
progressing is critical to prevent heart failure. However, there is no efficient
therapeutic approach currently available. Myofibroblasts are primarily
responsible for cardiac fibrosis. They are formed by cardiac fibroblast
differentiation, fibrocyte differentiation, epithelial to mesenchymal
transdifferentiation, and endothelial to mesenchymal transition, driven by
cytokines such as transforming growth factor beta (TGF-?), angiotensin II and
platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). The approaches that inhibit myofibroblast
formation have been demonstrated to prevent cardiac fibrosis, including systemic
delivery of antifibrotic drugs, localized delivery of biomaterials, localized
delivery of biomaterials and antifibrotic drugs, and localized delivery of cells
using biomaterials. This review addresses current progresses in cardiac fibrosis
therapies.