List of original articles

This thesis is based on the following articles, which are referred to in the text by their Roman numerals:

I Lappi-Blanco E, Kaarteenaho-Wiik R, Soini Y, Risteli J & Pääkkö P (1999) Intraluminal fibromyxoid lesions in bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia are highly capillarized. Hum Pathol 30: 1192–1196.

II Lappi-Blanco E, Soini Y, Kinnula V & Pääkkö P (2002) VEGF and bFGF are highly expressed in intraluminal fibromyxoid lesions in bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. J Pathol 196: 220–227.

III Lappi-Blanco E, Soini Y & Pääkkö P (1999) Apoptotic activity is increased in the newly formed fibromyxoid connective tissue in bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. Lung 177: 367–376.

IV Lappi-Blanco E, Kaarteenaho-Wiik R, Sormunen R, Salo S, Määttä M, Autio-Harmainen H, Soini Y & Pääkkö P (2002). Laminin-5 γ 2 chain is a marker of re-epithelialization in idiopathic UIP and BOOP. Submitted for publication.