New insights come from tracing cells that irreversibly scar lungs
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 13:02
in Health & Medicine
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is an incurable disease in which the delicate gas exchange region of the lung fills with scar tissue, which interferes with breathing. Now researchers at Duke University Medical Center have discovered that commonly held ideas about the origins of the scar-forming (fibrotic) cells were incorrect.
