ArticleScientific reports2021
Vitamin D suppresses bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis by targeting the local renin-angiotensin system in the lung.
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- Vitamin D in Cardiovascular Medicine: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Translation.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Attenuating amiodarone-induced lung toxicity by the vitamin D receptor activator paricalcitol in rats: targeting TLR4/NF-κB/HIF-1α and TGF-β/Smad signaling pathways.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Research progress on the discovery and mechanism of nutritional intervention substances for pulmonary fibrosis: a focus on astragalus and its bioactive components.Open life sciences · 2026Review
- Paricalcitol Attenuates Bleomycin-induced Pulmonary Fibrosis: Insights from Immunohistochemical and Molecular Genetic Analysis.Endocrine, metabolic & immune disorders drug targets · 2026Article
- Vitamin D3-Deficient Diet Promotes Pulmonary Fibrosis Development in Murine Model of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Effect of CTMP1 gene on pulmonary fibrosis.Toxicological research · 2025Article
- Causal Association Between 12 Micronutrients and Common Chronic Respiratory Diseases: A Bidirectional Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.Genetics research · 2025Article
- MicroRNAs regulate alveolar macrophage homeostasis and its function in lung fibrosis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- The first step for understanding the molecular mechanism of the antifibrotic effect of inhaling 25(OH)-vitamin D3 and 1,25(OH)Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- A pilot metabolomics study across the continuum of interstitial lung disease fibrosis severity.Physiological reports · 2024Article
- Mechanisms of Bleomycin-induced Lung Fibrosis: A Review of Therapeutic Targets and Approaches.Cell biochemistry and biophysics · 2024Review
- Cellular and Molecular Genetic Mechanisms of Lung Fibrosis Development and the Role of Vitamin D: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- The Tumor Stroma of Squamous Cell Carcinoma: A Complex Environment That Fuels Cancer Progression.Cancers · 2024Review
- Vitamin D level in COVID-19 patients has positive correlations with autophagy and negative correlations with disease severity.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Fibroblast Upregulation of Vitamin D Receptor Represents a Self-Protective Response to Limit Fibroblast Proliferation and Activation during Pulmonary Fibrosis.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- N-Acetylcysteine attenuated pulmonary fibrosis induced by bleomycinResearch in pharmaceutical sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a severe disorder leading to progressive and irreversible loss of pulmonary function. In this study we investigated the anti-fibrotic effect of vitamin D using a mouse model of IPF. Lung fibrosis was induced with bleomycin in vitamin D-sufficient and vitamin D-deficient C57BL/6 mice. We found that treatment with active vitamin D analog paricalcitol prevented mouse body weight loss and alleviated lung fibrosis, whereas vitamin D deficiency severely aggravated lung injury. At the molecular level, paricalcitol treatment suppressed the induction of fibrotic inducer TGF-β and extracellular matrix proteins α-SMA, collagen type I and fibronectin in the lung, whereas vitamin D deficiency exacerbated the induction of these proteins. Interestingly, bleomycin treatment activated the local renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the lung, manifested by the induction of renin, angiotensinogen, angiotensin II and angiotensin receptor type 1 (AT1R). Paricalcitol treatment suppressed the induction of these RAS components, whereas vitamin D deficiency enhanced the activation of the lung RAS. We also showed that treatment of bleomycin-induced vitamin D-deficient mice with AT1R antagonist losartan relieved weight loss, substantially ameliorated lung fibrosis and markedly blocked TGF-β induction in the lung. Moreover, we demonstrated that in lung fibroblast cultures, TGF-β and angiotensin II synergistically induced TGF-β, AT1R, α-SMA, collagen type I and fibronectin, whereas 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D markedly suppressed the induction of these fibrotic markers. Collectively, these observations strongly suggest that vitamin D mitigates lung fibrosis by blocking the activation of the lung RAS in this mouse model of IPF.
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