Genetic determinants of pulmonary fibrosis: Evolving concepts

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 416-428

  Spagnolo, Paolo ^a   Grunewald, Johan ^b,c   Du Bois, Roland M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b From the Department of Medicine   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; MUCIN 5AC; MUCIN 5B; SURFACTANT PROTEIN C; TELOMERASE; MUCIN;

ALLELE; CELL DAMAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; WOUND HEALING; COMPLICATION; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS; MUCINS; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; PULMONARY SURFACTANT-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN C; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; TELOMERASE;

EID: 84900328026     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70047-5     Document Type: Review

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