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Undifferentiated Bronchial Fibroblasts Derived from Asthmatic Patients Display Higher Elastic Modulus than Their Non-Asthmatic Counterparts

During asthma development, differentiation of epithelial cells and fibroblasts towards the contractile phenotype is associated with bronchial wall remodeling and airway constriction. Pathological fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition (FMT) can be triggered by local inflammation of bronchial walls....

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Autores principales: Sarna, Michal, Wojcik, Katarzyna A., Hermanowicz, Pawel, Wnuk, Dawid, Burda, Kvetoslava, Sanak, Marek, Czyż, Jarosław, Michalik, Marta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4334506/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25679502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116840