New Mouse Model Will Allow Detailed Study of Pulmonary Fibrosis

Scientists from Penn Medicine say they have developed the first mouse model with an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)-associated mutation, which induces scarring and other damage similar to what is observed in humans suffering from the condition. Their study (“ Lung injury and fibrosis induced by a mutant form of surfactant protein C ”) appears in the Journal of Clinical Investigation .No one has been able to make a model to date that actually mirrors what's going on in h