New insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Drugs

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 981-1001

  Ding, Qiang ^a   Luckhardt, Tracy ^a   Hecker, Louise ^a   Zhou, Yong ^a   Liu, Gang ^a   Antony, Veena B ^a   DeAndrade, Joao ^a   Thannickal, Victor J ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcysteine; Anticoagulants; Azathioprine; Bosentan; Corticosteroids; Etanercept; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Imatinib; Interferon; Interferon gamma; Oxygen; Pirfenidone; Prednisone; Sildenafil.

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; AZATHIOPRINE; BOSENTAN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETANERCEPT; FASUDIL; GAMMA1B INTERFERON; IMATINIB; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICRORNA; PIRFENIDONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR; SILDENAFIL; SLX 2119; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WARFARIN;

AGING; CELL AGING; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELLULAR PLASTICITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; ENDOTHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; HYPOXEMIA; INHALATION; INTESTINAL FIBROSIS; KIDNEY FIBROSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MONOTHERAPY; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PLASTICITY; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; TUBULOINTERSTITIAL KIDNEY FRIBOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79958788032     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: 11791950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11591490-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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