Regional heterogeneity in murine lung fibroblasts from normal mice or mice exposed once to cigarette smoke.

Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) is characterized by matrix deposition in the small airways but matrix loss from the parenchyma, phenomena which must depend on the ability of local fibroblasts to produce matrix after smoke exposure. To investigate this idea, we exposed C57Bl/6 mice once to ci...

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Main Authors: Olena Preobrazhenska, Joanne L Wright, Andrew Churg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3386200?pdf=render