Article
Chronic Expression of a Clinical SFTPC Mutation Causes Murine Lung Fibrosis with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Features.
American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology - 1 Apr 2023
Rodriguez Luis, Tomer Yaniv, Carson Paige, Dimopoulos Thalia, Zhao Ming, Chavez Katrina, Iyer Swati, Huang Li, Ebert Christina, Sereda Larisa, Murthy Aditi, Trujillo Glenda, Beers Michael F, Katzen Jeremy
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive fibrotic interstitial lung disease. A barrier to developing more effective therapies for IPF is the dearth of preclinical models that recapitulate the early pathobiology of this disease. Intratracheal bleomycin, the conventional preclinical murine model of IPF, fails to reproduce the intrinsic dysfunction to the alveolar epithelial type 2 cell (AEC2)...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
