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Modeling Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in Humanized Severe Combined Immunodeficient Mice.
The American journal of pathology - 1 Apr 2018
Habiel David M, Espindola Milena S, Coelho Ana L, Hogaboam Cory M
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrotic lung disease of unknown etiopathogenesis with limited therapeutic options. IPF is characterized by an abundance of fibroblasts and loss of epithelial progenitors, which cumulates in unrelenting fibrotic lung remodeling and loss of normal oxygenation. IPF has been challenging to model in rodents; nonetheless, mouse models of lung fibrosis provide clues as to the...
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