"The results suggest a potential mechanism, at the tissue level and involving macrophages, of how pulmonary fibrosis originates," says the study's first author Ying Xu, a Ph.D. candidate in Zhao's ...

Identifying the underlying causes of prolonged lung inflammation associated with radiographic abnormalities could be key understanding long COVID and other lung conditions, researchers say.

More importantly, they identified specific macrophage subpopulations that are critical for resolving MASH and liver fibrosis ...

In fact, the researchers showed that, in mice, blocking different steps of the macrophage-fibrosis pathway—including Brd4 and IL-1β—can help ease heart fibrosis in animals with heart disease.

The Program for Pulmonary Fibrosis and Interstitial Lung Disease's mission is to provide state of the art evaluation and treatment for patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILD). The University of ...

Diffuse lung disease is one of the most common features of systemic sclerosis, and some degree of pulmonary fibrosis is found in the majority of patients postmortem. [37] The etiology of SSc is ...

22, 2024 — Managing hard-to-treat respiratory illnesses like asthma and pulmonary fibrosis just got easier if a new drug-carrying molecule is as sneaky as its inventors ... COPD and BPD ...

The term “progressive pulmonary fibrosis” or “PPF” is generally used to describe progressive lung fibrosis in an individual with an interstitial lung disease (ILD) other than idiopathic ...

Buyang Huanwu decoction ameliorates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats by attenuating the apoptosis of alveolar type II epithelial cells mediated by endoplasmic reticulum stress.

The Lung Institute provides comprehensive diagnostics and treatments to patients with illnesses that affect the lungs and breathing, including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ...