Regulated overexpression of interleukin 11 in the lung: Use to dissociate development-dependent and -independent phenotypes

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2501-2511

  Ray, Prabir ^a   Tang, Weiliang ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Homer, Robert ^a,b   Kuhn III, Charles ^c   Flavell, Richard A ^a   Elias, Jack A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway fibrosis; Asthma; Emphysema; Inducible transgene expression

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 11;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLARA CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG NODULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0030781142     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119792     Document Type: Article

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