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Overview

Boris Hinz is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has produced extensive research in medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans various subfields including cell biology, molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, and genetics.

Their research focuses on topics such as cellular mechanics and interactions, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, mesenchymal stem cell research, cell adhesion molecules research, wound healing and treatments, as well as occupational and environmental lung diseases.

Recent publications by Hinz include:

  • Fibroblast and myofibroblast activation in normal tissue repair and fibrosis, 2024, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • The myofibroblast at a glance, 2020, Journal of Cell Science
  • The Role of Myofibroblasts in Physiological and Pathological Tissue Repair, 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology
  • The inflammatory speech of fibroblasts, 2021, Immunological Reviews
  • Implant Fibrosis and the Underappreciated Role of Myofibroblasts in the Foreign Body Reaction, 2021, Cells

Hinz often collaborates with a cohort of co-authors, including Maya Ezzo, Fereshteh S. Younesi, Dong Ok Son, Ronen Schuster, and Nina Noskovičová.

Their publications frequently appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cells, Methods in Molecular Biology, Science Advances, and Wound Repair and Regeneration.

In addition to articles, Hinz has contributed to book publications with titles such as Myofibroblasts, published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Myofibroblasts and mechano-regulation of connective tissue remodelling

    James J. Tomasek;Giulio Gabbiani;Boris Hinz;Christine Chaponnier

  • The Myofibroblast: One Function, Multiple Origins

    Boris Hinz;Sem H. Phan;Victor J. Thannickal;Andrea Galli

  • Formation and Function of the Myofibroblast during Tissue Repair

    Boris Hinz

  • Myofibroblast contraction activates latent TGF-β1 from the extracellular matrix

    Pierre-Jean Wipff;Daniel B. Rifkin;Jean-Jacques Meister;Boris Hinz

  • Alpha-Smooth Muscle Actin Expression Upregulates Fibroblast Contractile Activity

    Boris Hinz;Giuseppe Celetta;James J. Tomasek;Giulio Gabbiani

  • Recent developments in myofibroblast biology: paradigms for connective tissue remodeling.

    Boris Hinz;Sem H. Phan;Victor J. Thannickal;Marco Prunotto

  • Fibroblastic reticular cells in lymph nodes regulate the homeostasis of naive T cells.

    Alexander Link;Tobias K Vogt;Stéphanie Favre;Mirjam R Britschgi

  • Focal adhesion size controls tension-dependent recruitment of α-smooth muscle actin to stress fibers

    Jérôme M. Goffin;Philippe Pittet;Gabor Csucs;Jost W. Lussi

  • The myofibroblast: Paradigm for a mechanically active cell

    Boris Hinz

  • Mechanical tension controls granulation tissue contractile activity and myofibroblast differentiation

    Boris Hinz;Dominique Mastrangelo;Christophe E. Iselin;Christine Chaponnier

  • The myofibroblast matrix: implications for tissue repair and fibrosis

    Franco Klingberg;Boris Hinz;Eric S White

  • Integrins and the activation of latent transforming growth factor beta1 - an intimate relationship

    Pierre-Jean Wipff;Boris Hinz

  • The extracellular matrix and transforming growth factor-β1: Tale of a strained relationship

    Boris Hinz

  • Mechanisms of force generation and transmission by myofibroblasts.

    Boris Hinz;Giulio Gabbiani

  • Marching at the front and dragging behind: differential αVβ3-integrin turnover regulates focal adhesion behavior

    Christoph Ballestrem;Boris Hinz;Beat A. Imhof;Bernhard Wehrle-Haller

  • Tissue stiffness, latent TGF-β1 Activation, and mechanical signal transduction: Implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of fibrosis

    Boris Hinz

  • Evasion of apoptosis by myofibroblasts: a hallmark of fibrotic diseases.

    Boris Hinz;David Lagares

  • Interstitial fluid flow induces myofibroblast differentiation and collagen alignment in vitro

    Chee Ping Ng;Boris Hinz;Melody A. Swartz;Melody A. Swartz

  • YAP/TAZ Are Mechanoregulators of TGF-β-Smad Signaling and Renal Fibrogenesis

    Stephen G. Szeto;Masahiro Narimatsu;Mingliang Lu;Xiaolin He

  • Alpha-smooth muscle actin is crucial for focal adhesion maturation in myofibroblasts.

    Boris Hinz;Vera Dugina;Christoph Ballestrem;Bernhard Wehrle-Haller

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulio Gabbiani
Giulio Gabbiani University of Geneva
Christine Chaponnier
Christine Chaponnier University of Geneva
David W. Ray
David W. Ray University of Oxford
Christopher A. McCulloch
Christopher A. McCulloch University of Toronto
Andras Kapus
Andras Kapus University of Toronto
Dimitri Van De Ville
Dimitri Van De Ville École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Kai Johnsson
Kai Johnsson Max Planck Society
Gary Sweeney
Gary Sweeney York University
Victor J. Thannickal
Victor J. Thannickal Tulane University
Sem H. Phan
Sem H. Phan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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