The importance of interventional timing in the bleomycin model of pulmonary fibrosis

P Kolb, C Upagupta, M Vierhout… - European …, 2020 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… An official American Thoracic Society workshop report: use of animal models for the preclinical
assessment of potential therapies for pulmonary fibrosis. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2017; …

Targeting metabolic dysregulation for fibrosis therapy

X Zhao, JYY Kwan, K Yip, PP Liu, FF Liu - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
… Inhibition of this TGFβ1–HIF1α–PDK1 axis by genetic deletion of HIF1α or by drug-mediated
inhibition of PDK1 using dichloroacetate reduces pulmonary fibrosis 61,62 . Additionally, in …

Metabolic dysregulation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

E Bargagli, RM Refini, M d'Alessandro… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fibroproliferative disorder limited to the lung. New
findings, starting from our proteomics studies on IPF, suggest that systemic involvement with …

COVID-19: the potential treatment of pulmonary fibrosis associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection

K Lechowicz, S Drożdżal, F Machaj, J Rosik… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
… The antiparasitic agent ivermectin may be another therapeutic approach worth exploring
further. In an in vitro study, it showed a 99.98% reduction in viral load after 48 h of treatment, in …

Cardiac fibrosis: potential therapeutic targets

S Park, NB Nguyen, A Pezhouman, R Ardehali - Translational Research, 2019 - Elsevier
… treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Pirfenidone has … therapy, investigators have turned
to therapeutic approaches … as a form of cardiac therapy initially emerged in animal studies …

NADPH oxidases: Pathophysiology and therapeutic potential in age-associated pulmonary fibrosis

K Kato, L Hecker - Redox Biology, 2020 - Elsevier
… Oxidative stress has been associated with a number of human fibrotic diseases, including
idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Although oxidative stress is associated with both fibrosis

Immune dysregulation as a driver of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

K Shenderov, SL Collins, JD Powell… - The Journal of clinical …, 2021 - Am Soc Clin Investig
… Arguing against this therapeutic approach, however, are recent reports indicating that anti–PD-1
immunotherapy can cause interstitial lung disease through an unclear mechanism (97). …

Cellular metabolomics of pulmonary fibrosis, from amino acids to lipids

W Roque, F Romero - American Journal of Physiology-Cell …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
… This study suggests that chronic inhibition of Arg-1 may represent a potential therapeutic
approach; however, studies in other cell lines have shown poor outcomes, including worsened …

TGF-β-induced fibrosis: A review on the underlying mechanism and potential therapeutic strategies

CH Ong, CL Tham, HH Harith, N Firdaus… - European journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
… On this basis, inhibition of TGF-β and its activity has great therapeutic potential for the
treatment of various fibrotic diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis, renal fibrosis, systemic sclerosis …

Fibrosis: from mechanisms to medicines

NC Henderson, F Rieder, TA Wynn - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
fibrosis. Decreasing the mechanical tension on alveoli could be a therapeutic approach for
treating progressive lung fibrosispulmonary fibrosis (IPF), 18 patients with chronic obstructive …