Induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in alveolar epithelial cells by transforming growth factor-beta1: potential role in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

By Brigham C. Willis, J. Liebler, K. Luby‐Phelps, A. Nicholson, E. Crandall, R. D. du Bois, Z. Borok. American Journal of Pathology, 2005

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Acellular normal and fibrotic human lung matrices as a culture system for in vitro investigation. (2012, background): “These efforts suggest that TGF-b promotes myofibroblast differentiation (45), the fibroblast antiapoptotic phenotype (46), epithelial–mesenchymal transition (47), and ECM production (48).”
TGF-β1 Signaling and Tissue Fibrosis. (2018, methodology): “Identification of costaining cells is suggestive of EMT, but has inherent limitations (Kakugawa et al. 2005; Willis et al. 2005; Kim et al. 2006).”