The histological pattern of IPF is usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP), a patchy fibroproliferative process that spares some respiratory units while affecting others nearby.
Progress is slow and patchy, processes still too slow and bureaucratic.
After a patchy start, that process is going quite well.
The parenchymal microglia in our patients were typically ramified in appearance with shorter, thicker processes, were distributed in a patchy pattern, and tended to be close to the meninges.
Many short-term datasets from intensive field measurements are available7,8,9,10 that enhance our process understanding but often provide a patchy and skewed picture of aerosol characteristics as such efforts are designed to explore particular ambient conditions at varying locations.
Face processing relies on a patchy network of regions in the temporal and frontal lobes.
The processes in place have led to a patchy response, which in England has resulted in just two lymphoma centres and a complete absence of primary care to sample the other two conditions, thus preventing generalisation at the national level.
On Saturday, a powerful Islamist rebel group warned that the Geneva process was divorced from the deteriorating military situation on the ground, which is threatening a patchy six-week truce agreement brokered by the US and Russia.
Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is the most common and aggressive interstitial lung disease, characterized by a patchy development of fibrosis leading to progressive destruction of the normal lung architecture which is preceded by an inflammatory process.
There may, in fact, be a feed-forward process in that the continued range expansion will permit the maintenance of even greater genetic diversity in a patchy landscape, and contribute to increased heritability.
