Bleomycin in the setting of lung fibrosis induction: from biological mechanisms to counteractions

V Della Latta, A Cecchettini, S Del Ry… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Bleomycin (BLM) is a drug used to treat different types of neoplasms. BLM's most severe
adverse effect is lung toxicity, which induces remodeling of lung architecture and loss of …

Use of animal models in IPF research

R Carrington, S Jordan, SC Pitchford… - Pulmonary pharmacology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal interstitial lung disease with a poor prognosis
and limited treatment options. Many compounds have shown efficacy in preclinical models …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of lung protection of Sanghuangporus sanghuang through TLR4/NF-κB/MAPK, keap1/Nrf2/HO-1, CaMKK/AMPK/Sirt1, and TGF-β/SMAD3 …

LH Chien, JS Deng, WP Jiang, YN Chou, JG Lin… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a type of interstitial pneumonia characterized by
chronic and progressive fibrosis with an unknown etiology. Previous pharmacological …

[HTML][HTML] MWCNTs of different physicochemical properties cause similar inflammatory responses, but differences in transcriptional and histological markers of fibrosis in …

SS Poulsen, AT Saber, A Williams, O Andersen… - Toxicology and applied …, 2015 - Elsevier
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) are an inhomogeneous group of nanomaterials
that vary in lengths, shapes and types of metal contamination, which makes hazard …

[PDF][PDF] In vitro models of inhalation toxicity and disease

K BeruBe, M Aufderheide, D Breheny… - … to laboratory animals, 2009 - academia.edu
Background The respiratory system represents a major portal of entry for xenobiotics into the
body, whether they be intentionally administered as in the case of drugs and anaesthetics …

Longitudinal assessment of bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis by Micro-CT correlates with histological evaluation in mice

F Ruscitti, F Ravanetti, J Essers, Y Ridwan… - Multidisciplinary …, 2017 - Springer
Background The intratracheal instillation of bleomycin in mice induces early damage to
alveolar epithelial cells and development of inflammation followed by fibrotic tissue changes …

Mangiferin attenuates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice through inhibiting TLR4/p65 and TGF-β1/Smad2/3 pathway

L Jia, P Sun, H Gao, J Shen, Y Gao… - Journal of Pharmacy …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Investigating the antipulmonary fibrosis effect of mangiferin from Mangifera indica
and the possible molecular mechanism. Methods In vivo, bleomycin (BLM)-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Relevance of granulocyte apoptosis to resolution of inflammation at the respiratory mucosa

AE Leitch, R Duffin, C Haslett, AG Rossi - Mucosal immunology, 2008 - Elsevier
The respiratory mucosa is responsible for gas exchange and is therefore, of necessity,
exposed to airborne pathogens, allergens, and foreign particles. It has evolved a multi …

Radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis as a model of progressive fibrosis: Contributions of DNA damage, inflammatory response and cellular senescence genes

TA Beach, CJ Johnston, AM Groves… - Experimental lung …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Purpose/Aim of Study: Studies of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) have resulted in DNA
damage, inflammatory response, and cellular senescence being widely hypothesized to …

Evaluation of fibrosis in precision-cut tissue slices

IM Westra, BT Pham, GMM Groothuis, P Olinga - Xenobiotica, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
1. In this review, the use of precision-cut tissue slices (PCTS) of the liver, kidney, lung and
intestine in fibrosis research are evaluated and future possibilities are discussed. 2. In vivo …