Targeting cardiac fibrosis in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: mirage or miracle?

M Sweeney, B Corden, SA Cook - EMBO molecular medicine, 2020 - embopress.org
Cardiac fibrosis is central to the pathology of heart failure, particularly heart failure with
preserved ejection fraction (HF p EF). Irrespective of the underlying profibrotic condition (eg …

Hiding in plain sight: interleukin-11 emerges as a master regulator of fibrosis, tissue integrity, and stromal inflammation

SA Cook, S Schafer - Annual Review of Medicine, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Interleukin (IL)-11 is upregulated in a wide variety of fibro-inflammatory diseases such as
systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, pulmonary fibrosis, inflammatory bowel disease …

Hepatocyte-specific IL11 cis-signaling drives lipotoxicity and underlies the transition from NAFLD to NASH

J Dong, S Viswanathan, E Adami, BK Singh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
IL11 is important for fibrosis in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) but its role beyond the
stroma in liver disease is unclear. Here, we investigate the role of IL11 in hepatocyte …

Interleukin-11 signaling underlies fibrosis, parenchymal dysfunction, and chronic inflammation of the airway

B Ng, SA Cook, S Schafer - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Interleukin (IL)-11 evolved as part of the innate immune response. In the human
lung, IL-11 upregulation has been associated with viral infections and a range of …

IL‐11 in cardiac and renal fibrosis: late to the party but a central player

B Corden, E Adami, M Sweeney… - British journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Fibrosis is a pathophysiological hallmark of cardiorenal disease. In the heart, fibrosis leads
to contractile dysfunction and arrhythmias; in the kidney, it is the final common pathway for …

IL11 is elevated in systemic sclerosis and IL11-dependent ERK signalling underlies TGFβ-mediated activation of dermal fibroblasts

E Adami, S Viswanathan, AA Widjaja, B Ng… - …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Objectives Interleukin 11 (IL11) is highly upregulated in skin and lung fibroblasts
from patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Here we tested whether IL11 is mechanistically …

Transgenic interleukin 11 expression causes cross-tissue fibro-inflammation and an inflammatory bowel phenotype in mice

WW Lim, B Ng, A Widjaja, C Xie, L Su, N Ko, SY Lim… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Interleukin 11 (IL11) is a profibrotic cytokine, secreted by myofibroblasts and damaged
epithelial cells. Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) also secrete IL11 under pathological conditions …

Therapeutic targeting of IL-11 for chronic lung disease

RK Kortekaas, JK Burgess, R van Orsoy… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Interleukin (IL)-11 was originally recognized as an immunomodulatory and hematopoiesis-
inducing cytokine. However, although IL-11 is typically not found in healthy individuals, it is …

Critical Conditions for Studying Interleukin‐11 Signaling In Vitro and Avoiding Experimental Artefacts

S Viswanathan, B Ng, AA Widjaja, CJ Pua… - Current …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Interleukin (IL) 11 is a member of the IL6 family of cytokines which require the ubiquitous
gp130 receptor to activate canonical (JAK/STAT) and non‐canonical (eg, ERK) signaling …

Lung epithelial progenitor responses in diseased micro-environments

R Kortekaas - 2024 - research.rug.nl
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) are both
incurable lung diseases that worsen over time. The epithelium, which lines the inner surface …