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Modeling of fibrotic lung disease using 3D organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells
2019-02-03
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an intractable interstitial lung disease for which no curative treatment is available except for lung transplantation. Its pathogenesis is unclear, but a role for injury to type 2 alveolar epithelial cells is hypothesized. Recessive mutations in some, but not all genes implicated in Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome (HPS) cause HPS-associated interstitial pneumonia (HPSIP), a clinica...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3a81787a-5a48-5072-b6b5-70ca9658bbeb
- DOI
- 10.1101/538991
