Translational Research in Acute Lung Injury and Pulmonary Fibrosis Inhibition of the v 6 integrin leads to limited alteration of TGF-- induced pulmonary fibrosis

Satish K. Madala, Thomas R. Korfhagen, Stephanie Schmidt, Cynthia Davidson, Ramakrishna Edukulla, Machiko Ikegami, Shelia M. Violette, Paul H. Weinreb, Dean Sheppard, and William D. Hardie Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Division of Pulmonary Biology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Tissue Injury and Fibrosis Research; and Biologics Drug Discovery, Biogen Idec, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California