Multipotent mesenchymal stem cells in lung fibrosis.

Stem cells have been identified in the human lung; however, their role in lung disease is not clear. We aimed to isolate mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) from human lung tissue and to study their in vitro properties.MSC were cultured from lung tissue obtained from patients with fibrotic lung diseases (n...

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Main Authors: Katrin E Hostettler, Amiq Gazdhar, Petra Khan, Spasenija Savic, Luca Tamo, Didier Lardinois, Michael Roth, Michael Tamm, Thomas Geiser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5565112?pdf=render