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Hedgehog interacting protein-expressing lung fibroblasts suppress lymphocytic inflammation in mice.
JCI insight - 8 Sept 2021
Yun Jeong H, Lee ChangHee, Liu Tao, Liu Siqi, Kim Edy Y, Xu Shuang, Curtis Jeffrey L, Pinello Luca, Bowler Russell P, Silverman Edwin K, Hersh Craig P, Zhou Xiaobo
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is mainly caused by cigarette smoking and characterized by chronic inflammation in vulnerable individuals. However, it is unknown how genetic factors may shape chronic inflammation in COPD. To understand how hedgehog interacting protein, encoded by HHIP gene identified in the genome-wide association study in COPD, plays a role in inflammation, we utilized Hhip+/- mice...
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