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Implicating exudate macrophages and Ly-6C(high) monocytes in CCR2-dependent lung fibrosis following gene-targeted alveolar injury.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Apr 2013
Osterholzer John J, Olszewski Michal A, Murdock Benjamin J, Chen Gwo-Hsiao, Erb-Downward John R, Subbotina Natalya, Browning Keely, Lin Yujing, Morey Roger E, Dayrit Jeremy K, Horowitz Jeffrey C, Simon Richard H, Sisson Thomas H
Abstract excerpt
The alveolar epithelium is characteristically abnormal in fibrotic lung disease, and we recently established a direct link between injury to the type II alveolar epithelial cell (AEC) and the accumulation of interstitial collagen. The mechanisms by which damage to the epithelium induces lung scar...
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