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Correspondence
Answer to ‘COPD and IPF: it's all about regulation and balance’
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  1. Jia Hou1,2,
  2. Yongchang Sun1,
  3. Hui Zeng3
  1. 1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
  2. 2 Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China
  3. 3 Institute of Infectious Diseases, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
  1. Correspondence to Professor Yongchang Sun, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 1 Dongjiaominxiang, Dongcheng District, Beijing 100730, China; suny{at}ccmu.edu.cn and Professor Hui Zeng, Institute of Infectious Diseases, Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Jingshundongjie 8, Beijing 100015, China; zenghui@ccmu.edu.cn

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204987

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