Jingyan Zhu, Qiuyan Jiang, Shaoyan Gao, Qin Xia, Huizhe Zhang, Bowen Liu, Ruixi Zhao, Haixia Jiang, Xiaohe Li, Aiguo Xu, Honggang Zhou, Zuojun Xu, Cheng Yang
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is one of the most fatal chronic interstitial lung diseases with unknown pathogenesis, current treatments cannot truly reverse the progression of the disease. Pulmonary macrophages, especially bone marrow derived pro-fibrotic macrophages, secrete multiple kinds of profibrotic mediators (SPP1, CD206, CD163, IL-10, CCL18…), thus further promote myofibroblast activation and fibrosis procession. IL20Rb is a cell-surface receptor that belongs to IL-20 family. The role of IL20Rb in macrophage activation and pulmonary fibrosis remains unclear...
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