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It may come as some surprise that the hedgehog is a distant relative of the shrew, and even more of a surprise that hedgehogs native to North America are now extinct and have never been present in Australia. However, hedgehog and its signalling pathways are increased in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). In this issue of Thorax, Jia and colleagues describe how the chemokine CXCL14 is increased in mice in response to Hedgehog overexpression and is elevated in the plasma from patients with IPF (see
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Publisher URL: http://thorax.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/72/9/i
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210807
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