  Skinhumanized mice for scleroderma fibrosis.                Michele M. Luchetti 1 MD, Gianluca Moroncini 1 MD PhD, Maria Jose Escamez 2 PhD, Silvia Svegliati Baroni 1 PhD, Tatiana Spadoni 1 PhD, Antonella Grieco 1 PhD, Chiara Paolini 1 PhD, Ada Funaro 3 PhD, Enrico V. Avvedimento 4 MD PhD, Fernando Larcher 2 PhD, Marcela Del Rio 2 PhD, Armando Gabrielli 1 MD. 1 Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Molecolari, Clinica Medica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy; ! Epithelial Biomedicine Division, CIEMATCIBERER (U714)/Department of Bioengineering, UC3M/Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias dela Fundacion Jimenez Diaz (IISFJD), Madrid, Spain; 3 Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche, Università di Torino, Turin, Italy; 4 Dipartimento di Medicina Molecolare e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università Federico II, Naples, Italy. " This work was supported by Fondazione Medicina Molecolare e Terapia Cellulare (research funding to the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy), and grants from Ministero Italiano per l’Università e la Ricerca Scientifica (to Drs. Avvedimento, and Gabrielli), AIRC IG /11364 and Epigenomics Flagship Project—EPIGEN/C.N.R. (to Dr Avvedimento), Ministero Italiano della Salute RF-2011-02352331 (to Dr Gabrielli), and grants Pl14/00931 and S2010/BMD2359 (to FL) and SAF 201343475R and S2010/BMD2420 (to MDR) Drs. Moroncini, Svegliati Baroni, Avvedimento, and Gabrielli hold a patent application (US Patent Application no. 13/812,764; Epitopes of the human PDGF Receptor able to bind human autoantibodies, antibodies and uses thereof). Dr. Gabrielli has received consulting fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria from Actelion Pharmaceuticals (less than $10,000). "   Armando Gabrielli, MD Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Molecolari, Clinica Medica, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Via Tronto 10/A, 60126, Ancona, Italy. Tel: (39) 0712206101. Fax: (39) 2206103. Email: a.gabrielli@univpm.it "#$%"&% Full Length Arthritis & Rheumatology DOI 10.1002/art.39728 This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as an ‘Accepted Article’, doi: 10.1002/art.39728 © 2016 American College of Rheumatology Received: Jul 09, 2015; Revised: Feb 10, 2016; Accepted: Apr 19, 2016 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.