Zea Borok, Jeffrey A Whitsett, Peter B Bitterman, Victor J Thannickal, Darrell N Kotton, Susan D Reynolds, Mark A Krasnow, Diana W Bianchi, Edward E Morrisey, Brigid L Hogan, Jonathan M Kurie, David C Walker, Derek C Radisky, Steve L Nishimura, Shelia M Violette, Paul W Noble, Steve D Shapiro, Carol J Blaisdell, Harold A Chapman, James Kiley, Dorothy Gail, Deborah Hoshizaki
In April 2010, a NIH workshop was convened to discuss the current state of understanding of lung cell plasticity, including the responses of epithelial cells to injury, with the objectives of summarizing what is known, what the field needs to know, and how to get there. The proximal stimulus for this workshop is the body of recent evidence suggesting that plasticity is a prominent but incompletely characterized property of lung epithelial cells, and that a focus on understanding this aspect of epithelial cell biology in particular, may be an important window into disease pathobiology and pathogenesis...
June 2011: Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society