“…Recent studies have started to cast the net further in order to identify more compounds involved in fibrosis [10][11][12][13]. Plateletderived growth factor (PDGF), epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and fibroblast growth factor (FGF) are potent mitogens in this response, closely connected with VEG [14,15].…”