Technical advance: The use of tree shrews as a model of pulmonary fibrosis.

Technical advance: The use of tree shrews as a model of pulmonary fibrosis.

<h4>Background</h4>Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive disease with a high morbidity and mortality. Some of the mechanisms of fibrosis development have been described using rodent models; however, the relevance of findings in these animal models is difficult to...

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Main Authors: Jennifer L Larson-Casey, Chao He, Pulin Che, Meimei Wang, Guoqiang Cai, Young-Il Kim, Mustapha El Hamdaoui, Rafael Grytz, Qiang Ding, A Brent Carter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241323

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