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Injury triggers fascia fibroblast collective cell migration to drive scar formation through N-cadherin

Nature Communications, 2020
Extensive scars develop in deep wounds as opposed to superficial wounds but it is unclear why. Here, the authors use live imaging of physiologic wounds and scars formed ex vivo to show that fascia fibroblasts upregulate N-cadherin allowing coordinated ...
Dongsheng Jiang, Simon Christ, Donovan Correa-Gallegos, Pushkar Ramesh, Shruthi Kalgudde Gopal, Juliane Wannemacher, Christoph H. Mayr, Valerio Lupperger, Qing Yu, Haifeng Ye, Martin Mück-Häusl, Vijayanand Rajendran, Li Wan, Juan Liu, Ursula Mirastschijski, Thomas Volz, Carsten Marr, Herbert B. Schiller, Yuval Rinkevich   +18 more
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Comorbidities in interstitial lung diseases

European Respiratory Review, 2017
Fibrosing lung disorders include a large number of diseases with diverse behaviour. Patients can die because of the progression of their illness, remain stable or even improve after appropriate treatment has been instituted.
George A. Margaritopoulos, Katerina M. Antoniou, Athol U. Wells   +2 more
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Determination of The Relationship Between Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [PDF]

Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2017
Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are at increased risk of sleep-disorders. The concomitant occurrence of COPD and obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is named overlap syndrome. This study aimed to evaluate
Vahid Dehestani, Fariba Rezaeetalab, Mahnaz Amini, Davood Attaran, Leila Ghofraniha, Mohammadreza kasraei   +5 more
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Lung Cancer in Pulmonary Fibrosis: Tales of Epithelial Cell Plasticity [PDF]

, 2011
Lung epithelial cells exhibit a high degree of plasticity. Alterations to lung epithelial cell function are critically involved in several chronic lung diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis.
Königshoff, M., Melanie Königshoff, Königshoff, Melanie   +2 more
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Age of initiation of cigarette smoking and quit attempts among young women in India - evidence from Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2009 and 2017

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background and challenges to implementation We estimate the age at initiation of occasional and regular cigarette smoking among young women (15-24) and estimate the likelihood of quitting smoking through age 35 years.
Pranay Lal, Mira Aghi, Deepak Sharma, Ashish Pandey   +3 more
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Overnight desaturation in interstitial lung diseases: links to pulmonary vasculopathy and mortality

ERJ Open Research
Background Overnight desaturation predicts poor prognosis across interstitial lung diseases (ILDs). The aim of the present study was to investigate whether nocturnal desaturation is associated with pulmonary vasculopathy and mortality.
George A. Margaritopoulos, Athanasia Proklou, Athina Trachalaki, Diana Badenes Bonet, Maria Kokosi, Vasilis Kouranos, Felix Chua, Peter George, Elisabetta A. Renzoni, Anand Devaraj, Sujal Desai, Andrew G. Nicholson, Katerina M. Antoniou, Athol U. Wells   +13 more
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Anti-tuberculosis drug resistance and associated risk factors in a tertiary level TB center in Iran: a retrospective analysis

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2011
Introduction: This study aimed to determine first-line anti-tuberculosis drug resistance rates in new and previously treated cases and to identify risk factors associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) at the National Reference ...
Muayad Aghali Merza, Parissa Farnia, Payam Tabarsi, Mehdi Khazampour, Mohammad Reza Masjedi, Ali Akbar Velayati   +5 more
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The Union and Médecins Sans Frontières approach to operational research. [PDF]

, 2011
Operational research (OR) has become a hot topic at national meetings, international conferences and donor fora. The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Operational Centre Brussels ...
Fujiwara, P I, Berger, SD, Harries, AD, Detjen, AK, Berger, S D, Harries, A D, Detjen, A K, Bissell, K, Fussell, M, Zachariah, R, Edginton, M, Rusen, ID, Hinderaker, S G, Rusen, I D, Fujiwara, PI, Reid, T, Hinderaker, SG   +16 more
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Implication of vitamin D-associated factors in patients with non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: Little information is available regarding vitamin D-associated factors in patients with non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) lung disease. OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between vitamin D-related factors and susceptibility to NTM ...
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Pulmonary Mycobacterium Simiae infection and HTLV1 infection: an incidental co-infection or a predisposing factor?

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
There is little information on atypical mycobacterium and human T lymphothropic virus Type I (HTLV-I) co-infection. We present the first case of pulmonary M. simiae infection in co-infection with HTLV-1, confirmed by ELISA antibody test and Western Blot.
S.M. Mirsaeidi, P. Tabarsi, A. Mardanloo, G. Ebrahimi, M. Amiri, P. Farnia, M. Sheikhleslami, V. Bakayev, F. Mohammadi, S.D. Mansouri, M.R. Masjedi, A.A. Velayati   +11 more
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