Interleukin-22 Inhibits Bleomycin-Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis

• Main Authors: Minrui Liang (Author), Jiucun Wang (Author), Haiyan Chu (Author), Xiaoxia Zhu (Author), Hang He (Author), Qiong Liu (Author), Jianhua Qiu (Author), Xiaodong Zhou (Author), Ming Guan (Author), Yu Xue (Author), Xiangjun Chen (Author), Hejian Zou (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive and fatal fibrotic disease of the lungs with unclear etiology. Recent insight has suggested that early injury/inflammation of alveolar epithelial cells could lead to dysregulation of tissue repair driven by multiple cytokines. Although dysregulation of interleukin...