Buyang Huanwu decoction ameliorates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats by attenuating the apoptosis of alveolar type II epithelial cells mediated by endoplasmic reticulum stress.

Thus, laser-picked alveolar macrophages were compared (1) to lavaged alveolar macrophages of these lungs undergoing mRNA extraction, and (2) to lavaged cells secondarily embedded in a tissue block ...