[Surprisingly, although Smad3 null mice, deficient in TGF-beta signal transmission, are resistant to bleomycin- and TGF-beta-mediated fibrosis, they develop spontaneous age-related airspace enlargement, consistent with emphysema, with a lack of ability to repair tissue damage appropriately.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE