Clinical relevance of plasma prostaglandin F2α metabolite concentrations in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Clinical relevance of plasma prostaglandin F2α metabolite concentrations in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

BACKGROUND: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a devastating lung disease of unknown etiology with few current treatment options. Recently, we determined an important role of prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) in pulmonary fibrosis by using a bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis model and found an abunda...

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Main Authors: Kensaku Aihara, Tomohiro Handa, Toru Oga, Kizuku Watanabe, Kiminobu Tanizawa, Kohei Ikezoe, Yoshio Taguchi, Hiroe Sato, Kazuo Chin, Sonoko Nagai, Shuh Narumiya, Athol U Wells, Michiaki Mishima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3679025?pdf=render

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