Characteristics of ectopic alveolar basal cells relative to airway basal cells in fibrosis
Sabrina Blumer, Petra Khan, Julien Roux, Nataliia Artysh, Linda Plappert, Spasenija Savic, Antje Prasse, Katrin Hostettler
The paper compares ectopic alveolar basal cells with airway basal cells in ILD patients, finding transcriptomic and organoid-forming differences but no evidence of AT2 cell origin.
ERJ Open Research · May 16, 2025Peer-reviewedCell Biology