Gelsolin in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: A new target supports a central role for epithelial injury in disease pathogenesis

Thorax

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 461-462

  Whyte, Moira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; BLEOMYCIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE INHIBITOR; CHEMOKINE; COLLAGEN; DEATH RECEPTOR; DNA; GELSOLIN; INTERLEUKIN 8; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DRUG TARGETING; EDITORIAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG FIBROSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 67249092093     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2008.110577     Document Type: Editorial

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