Molecular and cellular mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis

Fibrogenesis and Tissue Repair

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Todd, Nevins W ^a,b   Luzina, Irina G ^a,b   Atamas, Sergei P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coagulation; Collagen; Epithelial cells; Extracellular matrix; Fibroblasts; Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis; Inflammation; Oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; AZATHIOPRINE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; CATALASE; CD40 ANTIGEN; CD40 LIGAND; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; FAS ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUTATHIONE; INTEGRIN; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PREDNISONE; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THROMBOPLASTIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNINDEXED DRUG;

B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BONE MARROW CELL; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG MECHANISM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROCYTE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; LUNG FIBROBLAST; LUNG FIBROSIS; MACROPHAGE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 84866317919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17551536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-1536-5-11     Document Type: Review

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