Pharmacology of adenosine receptors: the state of the art

PA Borea, S Gessi, S Merighi… - Physiological …, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Adenosine is a ubiquitous endogenous autacoid whose effects are triggered through the
enrollment of four G protein-coupled receptors: A1, A2A, A2B, and A3. Due to the rapid …

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

TE King, A Pardo, M Selman - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a devastating, age-related lung disease of unknown cause
that has few treatment options. This disease was once thought to be a chronic inflammatory …

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of human lung provides insights into the pathobiology of pulmonary fibrosis

PA Reyfman, JM Walter, N Joshi… - American journal of …, 2019 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: The contributions of diverse cell populations in the human lung to pulmonary
fibrosis pathogenesis are poorly understood. Single-cell RNA sequencing can reveal …

Cigarette smoke exposure and inflammatory signaling increase the expression of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in the respiratory tract

JC Smith, EL Sausville, V Girish, ML Yuan… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
The factors mediating fatal SARS-CoV-2 infections are poorly understood. Here, we show
that cigarette smoke causes a dose-dependent upregulation of angiotensin converting …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting PI3K/AKT signaling for treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

J Wang, K Hu, X Cai, B Yang, Q He, J Wang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive fibrotic interstitial pneumonia
with unknown causes. The incidence rate increases year by year and the prognosis is poor …

SARS-CoV-2 induces transcriptional signatures in human lung epithelial cells that promote lung fibrosis

J Xu, X Xu, L Jiang, K Dua, PM Hansbro, G Liu - Respiratory research, 2020 - Springer
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2-induced coronavirus
disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease that affects> 2.8 million people worldwide …

Emerging therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive age-related disease

AL Mora, M Rojas, A Pardo, M Selman - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal age-associated disease that is characterized by
progressive and irreversible scarring of the lung. The pathogenesis of IPF is not completely …

Lung myofibroblasts promote macrophage profibrotic activity through lactate-induced histone lactylation

H Cui, N **e, S Banerjee, J Ge, D Jiang… - American Journal of …, 2021 - atsjournals.org
Augmented glycolysis due to metabolic reprogramming in lung myofibroblasts is critical to
their profibrotic phenotype. The primary glycolysis byproduct, lactate, is also secreted into …

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis

G Coulis, D Jaime, C Guerrero-Juarez… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Macrophages are essential for skeletal muscle homeostasis, but how their dysregulation
contributes to the development of fibrosis in muscle disease remains unclear. Here, we used …

[CITATION][C] Proliferating SPP1/MERTK-expressing macrophages in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

C Morse, T Tabib, J Sembrat… - European …, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc