 Pulmonary Fibrosis
"Pulmonary Fibrosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A process in which normal lung tissues are progressively replaced by FIBROBLASTS and COLLAGEN causing an irreversible loss of the ability to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream via PULMONARY ALVEOLI. Patients show progressive DYSPNEA finally resulting in death.
| Descriptor ID |
D011658
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C08.381.765
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| Concept/Terms |
Pulmonary Fibrosis- Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Pulmonary Fibroses
- Fibroses, Pulmonary
- Fibrosis, Pulmonary
Alveolitis, Fibrosing- Alveolitis, Fibrosing
- Alveolitides, Fibrosing
- Fibrosing Alveolitides
- Fibrosing Alveolitis
- Hamman-Rich Syndrome
- Hamman Rich Syndrome
- Syndrome, Hamman-Rich
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pulmonary Fibrosis" by people in Profiles.
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Hackett TL, Ferrante SC, Hoptay CE, Engelhardt JF, Ingram JL, Zhang Y, Alcala SE, Shaheen F, Matz E, Pillai DK, Freishtat RJ. A Heterotopic Xenograft Model of Human Airways for Investigating Fibrosis in Asthma. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol. 2017 03; 56(3):291-299.
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Freishtat RJ, Nino G, Tsegaye Y, Alcala SE, Benton AS, Watson AM, Reeves EK, Haider SK, Damsker JM. Pharmacologically-induced mitotic synchrony in airway epithelial cells as a mechanism of action of anti-inflammatory drugs. Respir Res. 2015 Oct 29; 16:132.
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Basha HI, Ramachandran S, Tiriveedhi V, Takenaka M, Subramanian V, Nath DS, Benshoff N, Patterson GA, Mohanakumar T. Critical role for IL-17A/F in the immunopathogenesis of obliterative airway disease induced by Anti-MHC I antibodies. Transplantation. 2013 Jan 27; 95(2):293-300.
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Danner-Koptik K, Jacobsohn DA, Dilley KJ. Late effects of stem cell transplantation in brain tumor survivors. Cancer Treat Res. 2009; 150:67-79.
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