THE ROLE OF NINTEDANIB AND PIRFENIDONE IN THE TREATMENT OF IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS AND REVIEW OF RECENT CLINICAL TRIALS OF IPF THERAPY

The role of nintedanib and pirfenidone in the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and review of recent clinical trials of IPF therapy

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, rare disease characterized by continuous fibrosis of the lung parenchyma.It mainly affects the elderly; however, it is increasingly being diagnosed in younger patients as well.Risk factors include smoking, occupational dust exposure and genetic factors.Symptoms of IPF include shortness of breath, dr

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Squeeze Flow of Stress Power Law Fluids

In this paper, we studied the squeeze flow between circular disks of a new class of Ski de fond - Homme - Bottes - Back country fluids defined by an implicit relation referred to as stress power law fluids.The constitutive response of these fluids was written expressing the symmetric part of the velocity gradient as a tensorial function of the Cauc

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