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Inflammatory response and cathepsins in silica-exposed Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome model pale ear mice.
Pathology international - 1 May 2004
Yoshioka Yasuko, Kumasaka Toshio, Ishidoh Kazumi, Kominami Eiki, Mitani Keiko, Hosokawa Yoshinori, Fukuchi Yoshinosuke
Abstract excerpt
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a hereditary disorder involving the sorting processes of intracellular organelles such as lysosomes of reticuloendothelial cells. Pale ear (ep) mouse is known to have the HPS1 gene mutation, which is seen in patients with HPS and pulmonary fibrosis. As pulmonary fibrosis is not spontaneously observed in ep mice, we hypothesized that external stimuli are necessary for the genetic...
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