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Michael Whitfield, PhD of Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine
We found that a common link exists between the fibrosis in different organs affected in scleroderma, specifically skin, lungs, GI tract, and peripheral blood cells. That common link is a certain type of cell of the innate immune system that we think is driving the disease. The innate immune system consists of the immediate responses that the body has to an injury or infection.
