
Follistatin: The Body’s Own Anti-Fibrotic Guardian — and What It Means for Scleroderma
Abstract Scleroderma — or systemic sclerosis — is one of the most relentless diseases in rheumatology. Not because it is the most common, but because of what it does: it slowly replaces living tissue with scar. Skin that should be supple becomes leathery and rigid. Lungs fill with fibrotic matrix. Blood vessels narrow and obliterate. The body’s own repair machinery turns against it, laying down collagen it cannot stop and





