Cells (Aug 2021)

Modeling Extracellular Matrix-Cell Interactions in Lung Repair and Chronic Disease

  • Tillie Louise Hackett,
  • Emmanuel Twumasi Osei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/cells10082145
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 8
p. 2145

Abstract

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The lung extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex and dynamic mixture of fibrous proteins (collagen, elastin), glycoproteins (fibronectin, laminin), glycosaminoglycans (heparin, hyaluronic acid) and proteoglycans (perlecan, versican), that are essential for normal lung development and organ health [...]

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