La viscoelasticidad del tejido pulmonar se conserva con la fibrosis inducida por la bleomicina en ratones

Leilani R Astrab1, Riley T Hannan2, Mackenzie L Skelton1

  • 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.

Acta biomaterialia
|February 22, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

La fibrosis pulmonar endurece los pulmones pero, sorprendentemente, mantiene una viscoelasticidad constante. Este estudio revela un nuevo fenotipo pulmonar mecánico y desarrolla un modelo de hidrogel para la investigación de la fibrosis.

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