Clinical aspects of lung involvement: Lessons from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and the scleroderma lung study

Expression of bcl-2 protein and APO-1 (F

Expression of bcl-2 protein and APO-1 (Fas antigen) in the lung tissue from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

✍ Kazufumi, Minowa; Sonoko, Nagai; Masanori, Kitaichi; Takateru, Izumi; Akira, Osh 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 427 KB 👁 2 views

The fibrotic process of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is considered to be the consequence of an exaggerated response to an inflammatory lung injury. In a previous report, except for the response to PG-E 2 , we found no difference in the proliferative profiles of lung fibroblasts between IPF pa