| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis remains unclear. B cell depletion before the induction of lung fibrosis substantially exacerbated disease symptoms. Similarly, pulmonary fibrosis was also significantly worse in genetically B cell-deficient. MT mice when compared with wild type mice. The adoptive transfer of wild type regulatory B cells into. MT mice before disease initiation significantly reduced pulmonary pathology in. MT mice. By contrast, B cell depletion during the inflammatory phase of pathology dramatically suppressed disease symptoms. Thus, B cells have important regulatory and pathogenic roles during the development of lung fibrosis.
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