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Role of Immune Checkpoint Proteins in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
2017-08-08
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrotic lung disease, with unknown etiopathogenesis and suboptimal therapeutic options. Due to the lack of clinical efficacy of standard immuno-suppressants in IPF, the role of the immune response in this disease remains elusive. Nevertheless, previous reports have shown that increased T cell numbers and phenotype is predictive of prognosis in IPF, suggesting that these ce...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1d9a46a4-6dff-5b73-bf4b-56f9712243b5
- DOI
- 10.1101/173237
