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Systematic review of drug effects in humans and models with surfactant-processing disease.
European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society - 30 Sept 2018
Klay Dymph, Hoffman Thijs W, Harmsze Ankie M, Grutters Jan C, van Moorsel Coline H M
Abstract excerpt
Fibrotic interstitial pneumonias are a group of rare diseases characterised by distortion of lung interstitium. Patients with mutations in surfactant-processing genes, such as surfactant protein C (SFTPC), surfactant protein A1 and A2 (SFTPA1 and A2), ATP binding cassette A3 (ABCA3) and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS1, 2 and 4), develop progressive pulmonary fibrosis, often culminating in fatal respiratory...
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