Investigating the mechanisms of bronchiolitis obliterans in a murine tracheal transplant model

Post-lung transplant bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in lung transplant patients and is the major limitation to long-term transplant survival. BO is believed to be primarily the result of repetitive immune-mediated injury to the airway epithelium resulti...

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Main Author: Cheah, Stefanie
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11561