Cigarette Smoke Enhances the Expression of Profibrotic Molecules in Alveolar Epithelial Cells.

Cigarette Smoke Enhances the Expression of Profibrotic Molecules in Alveolar Epithelial Cells.

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and lethal disease of unknown etiology. A growing body of evidence indicates that it may result from an aberrant activation of alveolar epithelium, which induces the expansion of the fibroblast population, their differentiation to myofibroblasts a...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marco Checa, James S Hagood, Rafael Velazquez-Cruz, Victor Ruiz, Carolina García-De-Alba, Claudia Rangel-Escareño, Francisco Urrea, Carina Becerril, Martha Montaño, Semiramis García-Trejo, José Cisneros Lira, Arnoldo Aquino-Gálvez, Annie Pardo, Moisés Selman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4775036?pdf=render

Internet

http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4775036?pdf=render

Similar Items