Articles from Rajesh K Kasam
Place of Work: National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR), Hyderabad-India & Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), Ohio- United States of America
Current Position: Post-doctoral fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Research interests: Tissue remodeling, fibrotic diseases, tissue regeneration
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive fibrotic lung disease that develops because of excessive accumulation of ECM components leading to thickening and scarring of the lungs. Aurora kinase B an enzyme involved in various cellular processes was shown to be up regulated and it’s activity can be checked by an inhibitor called Barasertib.