Circulating fibrocytes and collagen turnover products in UIP: marker of disease activity and prognostic tool?

A. Moeller, A. Froese, S. Gilpin, K. Ask, G. Cox, P. O‘Byrne, J. Gauldie, M. Kolb (Hamilton, ON, Canada)

Source: Annual Congress 2007 - Considerations in the management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and other interstitial lung diseases
Disease area: Interstitial lung diseases

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