Rigid substrate induces esophageal smooth muscle hypertrophy and eosinophilic esophagitis fibrotic gene expression

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.
• ² Division of Allergy and Immunology, Center for Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.
• ³ Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif; Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.
• ⁵ Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif; Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, Calif.
• ⁶ Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Ark.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif; Division of Allergy and Immunology, Center for Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, Calif; Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, Calif. Electronic address: saceves@ucsd.edu.