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Sergio Esquivel-Ruiz1,2, Paloma González-Rodríguez2,3, José A Lorente2,3,4

  • 1Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, University Complutense of Madrid, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain.

Frontiers in Physiology
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PubMed

Keywords:
airway epitheliumbarrier dysfunctionextracellular vesicles (EVs)mesenchymal stem cellspreconditioningpulmonary endothelium

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