The alveolar epithelium plays a pivotal role in lung homeostasis and protects the lung from inhaled environmental insults and pathogenic infections. In the alveolus, alveolar type 2 cells (AT2 cells) ...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic disease in which healthy lung tissue is gradually replaced by scar tissue. While the early events that initiate this change are poorly understood, ...
The lung is a highly specialised organ that develops through a complex series of branching events and cellular differentiation processes. From the initial budding of the foregut, the formation of ...