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T cell immunotherapy for cardiac fibrosis: mRNA starts the CAR.

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Fibrosis, or chronic fibroblast activation and extracellular matrix deposition, underlies most cardiovascular diseases and remains challenging to target therapeutically. Reported in Science by Rurik et al., modified mRNA technology can reprogram… Click to show full abstract

Fibrosis, or chronic fibroblast activation and extracellular matrix deposition, underlies most cardiovascular diseases and remains challenging to target therapeutically. Reported in Science by Rurik et al., modified mRNA technology can reprogram endogenous T cells into fibroblast-ablating CAR-Ts in mouse hearts, offering a promising and tractable immunotherapy approach for tackling fibrosis.

Keywords: cell immunotherapy; immunotherapy cardiac; cell; fibrosis; car

Journal Title: Cell stem cell
Year Published: 2022

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