Early growth response gene 1-mediated apoptosis is essential for transforming growth factor beta1-induced pulmonary fibrosis.

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Published in J Exp Med on August 02, 2004

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Chun Geun Lee1, Soo Jung Cho, Min Jong Kang, Svetlana P Chapoval, Patty J Lee, Paul W Noble, Teshome Yehualaeshet, Binfeng Lu, Richard A Flavell, Jeffrey Milbrandt, Robert J Homer, Jack A Elias

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1: Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 300 Cedar St., 441c TAC, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

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