HGF Expressing Stem Cells in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Originate from the Bone Marrow and Are Antifibrotic

• Amiq Gazdhar,

  Affiliations Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Njomeza Susuri,

  Affiliations Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Katrin Hostettler,

  Affiliation Pneumology, Department of Biomedicine University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Mathias Gugger,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Lars Knudsen,

  Affiliation Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Michael Roth,

  Affiliation Pneumology, Department of Biomedicine University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Matthias Ochs,

  Affiliation Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Thomas Geiser

  * E-mail: thomas.geiser@insel.ch

  Affiliations Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Department of Clinical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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