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Immunological mechanisms and therapeutic approaches in pulmonary fibrosis.
European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society - 1 Apr 2026
Nell Laurine M, Hendriks Rudi W, Wijsenbeek Marlies S, Corneth Odilia B J, Koudstaal Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Pulmonary fibrosis (PF), the irreversible scarring of the lungs in many interstitial lung diseases, remains fatal despite currently approved antifibrotic therapy. Converging evidence shows that dysregulated innate and adaptive immunity orchestrates every stage of the fibrotic cascade. Roughly 20% of PF susceptibility loci map to immune regulatory genes, including Toll-interacting protein, interleukin (IL)-1...
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