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Emergency back-up for lung repair

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Influenza virus severely damages the epithelial tissue that lines the lung. Findings suggest that, in mice, activation of a back-up population of stem cells mediates effective repair of the injured lung. See Letters p.616 & p.621

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Figure 1: Stem cells that mediate lung repair.

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  1. the Wellcome Trust/MRC Stem Cell Institute and in the Department of Pathology, Emma L. Rawlins is at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK.,

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