A gene expression signature of emphysema-related lung destruction and its reversal by the tripeptide GHK

Genome Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Campbell, Joshua D ^a,b   McDonough, John E ^c   Zeskind, Julie E ^a,b   Hackett, Tillie L ^c   Pechkovsky, Dmitri V ^c   Brandsma, Corry Anke ^d   Suzuki, Masaru ^c   Gosselink, John V ^c   Liu, Gang ^a   Alekseyev, Yuriy O ^a   Xiao, Ji ^a   Zhang, Xiaohui ^a   Hayashi, Shizu ^c   Cooper, Joel D ^e   Timens, Wim ^d   Postma, Dirkje S ^d   Knight, Darryl A ^c   Lenburg, Marc E ^a,b   Hogg, James C ^c   Spira, Avrum ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84949116161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1756994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gm367     Document Type: Article

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