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The role of macrophage derived growth factors in pulmonary fibrosis

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Factors released from rat alveolar macrophages exposed to high (95 μg/mL) concentrations of the fibrogenic agent, nickel subsulfide, were found to inhibit the proliferation of cultured lung epithelial cells and stimulate the growth of fibroblasts. Such factors, if present in the alveoli of rats exposed by inhalation to nickel subsulfide in vivo, may play a role in inhibiting re-epithelization of nickel-damaged lungs and in stimulating fibroblast proliferation, leading to pulmonary fibrosis. (author)

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Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute annual report 1987-1988

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Imprint Title
Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute annual report 1987-1988
Imprint Pagination
659 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 469-474
Report number
LMF--121

INIS

Country of Publication
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36003670
Subject category
S60: APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; GROWTH FACTORS; IN VIVO; INHALATION; LUNGS; MACROPHAGES; NICKEL; RATS
Descriptors DEC
ANIMAL CELLS; ANIMALS; BODY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; ELEMENTS; INTAKE; MAMMALS; METALS; MITOGENS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; PATHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PHAGOCYTES; PROTEINS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RODENTS; SOMATIC CELLS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; VERTEBRATES

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
Contract DE-AC04-76EV01013
Notes
9 refs, 5 figs, 2 tabs
Secondary number(s)
INIS-XA-N--170