Immunoglobulin (Ig)G4-related sclerosing disease (ISD) (also called IgG4-related systemic
disease, IgG4-related disease or hyper-IgG4 disease) is a recently described systemic …

Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (PLCH) is a relatively uncommon lung disease that
generally, but not invariably, occurs in cigarette smokers. The pathologic hallmark of PLCH …

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is an uncommon acute respiratory illness of varying
severity that includes presentation as acute respiratory distress syndrome with fatal outcome. …

Background: Periodontal diagnosis relies heavily on traditional two‐dimensional radiographic
assessment. Despite efforts in improving reliability, current methods of detecting bone …

Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) administered as a single intratracheal injection causes a
prominent dose-dependent proliferation of type II alveolar epithelial cells in the lungs of adult …

We investigated the distribution of pulmonary arteriopathy in chronic pulmonary hypertension
(PH) in a quantitative histopathologic study, using computer-assisted image analysis. We …

Pulmonary vascular medial hypertrophy in primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) is mainly
caused by increased proliferation and decreased apoptosis in pulmonary artery smooth …

The nature of the endogenous mediators that down-regulate and curtail the exodus of neutrophils
into local acute inflammatory sites is unknown. In the present report, interleukin-6 (IL-6…

Purpose: The expression of programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) provides limited
predictive value in identifying patients most likely to respond to immunotherapy. As the …

Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) is a growth factor for type II pneumocytes. Type II pneumocyte
hyperplasia, a common reaction to lung injury, has been postulated to play an important …