Cardiac fibrosis in regenerative medicine: destroy to rebuild

During the last 10 years, cardiac fibrosis has assumed a central role in the cardiovascular field and could be defined as one of the rising topic in the cardiac research. The quantification of scientific papers (original manuscript and reviews) focused on ‘cardiac fibrosis’ present on PubMed database lends credence and veracity to the statement above. The bar graph of Figure 1 indicates the number of publication centred on fibrosis in the heart, which is interestingly almost tripled in the last decade