Taking the "idio" out of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A call to arms

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1101-1102

  Center, David M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CAVEOLIN 1; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

DISEASE COURSE; DNA DAMAGE; EDITORIAL; FIBROBLAST; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; VIRUS REACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CAVEOLIN 1; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TELOMERASE;

EID: 34249780849     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200704-547ED     Document Type: Editorial

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