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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Qiuyue Chen
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-31903 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Thorax 20130619 12
<h4>Background</h4>Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an untreatable lung disease with a median survival of only 3-5 years that is diagnosed using a combination of clinical, radiographic and pathologic criteria. Histologically, IPF is characterised by usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP), a fibrosing interstitial pneumonia with a pattern of heterogeneous, subpleural regions of fibrotic and remodelled lung. We hypothesised that gene expression profiles of lung tissue may identify molecular subt ...[more]