Targeting IPF (IMAGE)

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Targeting IPF

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In this microscopic photo of tissue from mouse lung with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), extensive fibrosis and collagen deposits (shown in red) have extensively infiltrated the tissue. Researchers at Cincinnati Children's report in Cell Reports that loss of the gene Foxf1 in lung myofibroblasts increased the severity of IPF in mice.

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