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Therefore, the development of specific treatment regimens to counteract fibrosis is of high clinical relevance. The transcription factor sex-determining region Y box 9 (SOX9) functions as an important regulator during embryogenesis, but recent data point toward an additional causal role in organ fibrosis. We show here that SOX9 is upregulated in the scar after MI in mice. Fibroblast-specific deletion of\n                    <jats:italic>Sox9<\/jats:italic>\n                    ameliorated MI-induced left ventricular dysfunction, dilatation, and myocardial scarring in vivo. Unexpectedly, deletion of\n                    <jats:italic>Sox9<\/jats:italic>\n                    also potently eliminated persisting leukocyte infiltration of the scar in the chronic phase after MI. 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