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Increased expression of YKL-40, a chitinase-like protein, in serum and lung of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

✍ Scribed by Kazuki Furuhashi; Takafumi Suda; Yutaro Nakamura; Naoki Inui; Dai Hashimoto; Seiichi Miwa; Hiroshi Hayakawa; Hideki Kusagaya; Yutaka Nakano; Hirotoshi Nakamura; Kingo Chida

Book ID: 116872726
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 642 KB
Volume: 104
Category: Article
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2010.02.026

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