About the Authors
- Mesias Pedroza
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Section of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America
- Sarah To
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Section of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America
- Jennifer Smith
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Section of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America
- Sandeep K. Agarwal
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Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: skagarwa@bcm.edu
Affiliation Section of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Agarwal holds the patent for targeting cadherin-11 in fibrotic disease entitled “Detection and treatment of non-dermal fibrosis” (US8877188B2). The patent dose not alter our adherence to the PLOS ONE policies regarding sharing data and materials. All the experiments were funded, designed, performed and analyzed completely independent of pharmaceutical companies developing therapeutics to target cadherin-11 (e.g. Roche). SANDEEP. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.