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Human insulin-like growth factor-IA expression in transgenic mice promotes adenomatous hyperplasia but not pulmonary fibrosis
24 Dec 2004
Abstract excerpt
Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) has been implicated in postnatal alveolar development, pulmonary fibrosis, and non-small cell lung cancer. To further investigate the role of IGF-I, we created a line of transgenic mice in which alveolar type II epithelial cells express human IGF-IA under the control of the surfactant protein C promoter. We determined the effect of pulmonary overexpression of human IGF-IA on...
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