Intratracheal Bleomycin Aerosolization: The Best Route of Administration for a Scalable and Homogeneous Pulmonary Fibrosis Rat Model?

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic disease with a poor prognosis and is characterized by the accumulation of fibrotic tissue in lungs resulting from a dysfunction in the healing process. In humans, the pathological process is patchy and temporally heterogeneous and the exact mechanisms...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexandre Robbe, Alexandra Tassin, Justine Carpentier, Anne-Emilie Declèves, Zita Léa Mekinda Ngono, Denis Nonclercq, Alexandre Legrand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/198418