cAMP-elevating agents and adenylyl cyclase overexpression promote an antifibrotic phenotype in pulmonary fibroblasts.

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Pulmonary fibroblasts are recruited to sites of lung injury, where they are activated to produce extracellular matrix proteins and to facilitate repair. However, these cells become dysregulated in pulmonary fibrosis, producing excess collagen at sites of injury and forming fibrotic loci that impair lung function. In this study, we used WI-38 human lung fibroblasts and evaluated the ability of G protein-coupled...

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