New analyses, presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2016 Annual Conference, further support the efficacy and safety of…
Articles by Magdalena Kegel
Netrin-1, a factor produced by the extracellular matrix, drives the production and accumulation of fibrocytes, a fibrosis-promoting cell type in…
Mesenchymal stem cells can aid in treating autoimmune-related lung fibrosis by changing the composition of T-cells from a mainly toxic…
More effective treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is needed for reasons as solidly grounded in economics as they are in basic healthcare, a…
Drugs targeting a pathway centered on a molecule named PI3K and a mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) — another molecule in…
Scientists from the Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden, reported findings from the first year of a national registry of idiopathic…
A case report of a woman with pulmonary fibrosis and a rare telomere mutation raised the possibility that telomere-associated fibrosis can…
Researchers at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, found that CD248 — a surface marker expressed on fibroblast cells…
Japanese researchers reported that treatment with thrombomoduÂlin, an anti-clotting factor naturally produced in the body, reduced mortality in patients experiencing…
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers demonstrated that the smallpox vaccine may reverse established lung fibrosis in mice. The vaccine…