… lung, pulmonary capillary endothelial cells, through EndoMT, may serve as a source of
fibroblasts in pulmonary fibrosis … Apart from this difference in AMs and IMs, lung macrophage …

… of interstitial macrophages by silica induces a greater fibrotic response than a macro… Alveolar
macrophages lavaged from fibrotic lungs after silica have been shown to secrete fibroblast …

… alveolar macrophages, myofibroblasts, and fibroblasts in lung biopsies obtained from idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis … rodent bleomycin (BLM)-induced pulmonary fibrosis models (5, 25, 26…

… actin gene expression, alteration of the contractile phenotype of fibroblasts and regu lation
of diverse functions of lung inflammatory and epithelial cells which can further impact on the …

… of pulmonary fibrosis, we hypothesized that it might elicit the PPARγ down-regulation seen in
IPF fibroblasts… responses to TGFβ in cultured human lung fibroblasts. Exposure to TGFβ up-…

… Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic fibrosing interstitial lung disease of unknown
… it used polarized BMDMs rather than lung macrophages or moAMs that may have different …

… Intravascular coagulation, and the elaboration of procoagulant activities by alveolar
macrophages, fibroblasts, and epithelial cells could also contribute to the release of important …

… Hallmark features of pulmonary fibrosis that occur during chronic inflammation are
excessive accumulations of fibroblasts and collagen in the intraluminal and interstitial compartments …

… injury syndromes: interrelationship between the alveolar macrophage and the septal
fibroblast. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 1992; 24:93-101; PMID:1512168; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/…

… -rich primary cultures of lung fibroblasts from patients with IPF (HIPF isolates), primary … the
lung fibrotic process. Although the relative role of alveolar macrophages in lung fibrosis has …