Emerging cellular and molecular determinants of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

THG Phan, P Paliogiannis, GK Nasrallah… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), the most common form of idiopathic interstitial
pneumonia, is a progressive, irreversible, and typically lethal disease characterized by an …

[HTML][HTML] Type 2 immunity in tissue repair and fibrosis

RL Gieseck III, MS Wilson, TA Wynn - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
Type 2 immunity is characterized by the production of IL-4, IL-5, IL-9 and IL-13, and this
immune response is commonly observed in tissues during allergic inflammation or infection …

Metformin reverses established lung fibrosis in a bleomycin model

S Rangarajan, NB Bone, AA Zmijewska, S Jiang… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Fibrosis is a pathological result of a dysfunctional repair response to tissue injury and occurs
in a number of organs, including the lungs. Cellular metabolism regulates tissue repair and …

Fibroblast heterogeneity: implications for human disease

MD Lynch, FM Watt - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2018 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Fibroblasts synthesize the extracellular matrix of connective tissue and play an essential role
in maintaining the structural integrity of most tissues. Researchers have long suspected that …

Fibroblasts: Immunomodulatory factors in refractory diabetic wound healing

Y Liu, Y Liu, W He, X Mu, X Wu, J Deng… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Diabetes is a systemic disease in which patients with diabetes may develop peripheral
neuropathy of the lower extremities and peripheral vascular disease due to long-term …

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer: mechanisms and molecular targets

B Ballester, J Milara, J Cortijo - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common idiopathic interstitial pulmonary
disease with a median survival of 2–4 years after diagnosis. A significant number of IPF …

Correlation of circular RNA abundance with proliferation–exemplified with colorectal and ovarian cancer, idiopathic lung fibrosis and normal human tissues

A Bachmayr-Heyda, AT Reiner, K Auer… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Circular RNAs are a recently (re-) discovered abundant RNA species with presumed
function as miRNA sponges, thus part of the competing endogenous RNA network. We …

Nuclear mechanosensing drives chromatin remodelling in persistently activated fibroblasts

CJ Walker, C Crocini, D Ramirez, AR Killaars… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Fibrotic disease is caused by the continuous deposition of extracellular matrix by persistently
activated fibroblasts (also known as myofibroblasts), even after the resolution of the injury …

Pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

PJ Wolters, HR Collard, KD Jones - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibrosing interstitial lung disease associated with
aging that is characterized by the histopathological pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia …

Fibrotic extracellular matrix activates a profibrotic positive feedback loop

MW Parker, D Rossi, M Peterson… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Pathological remodeling of the extracellular matrix (ECM) by fibroblasts leads to organ
failure. Development of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterized by a progressive …