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ArticleAmerican journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology2023

Multiple Fibroblast Subtypes Contribute to Matrix Deposition in Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Xue Liu, Kristy Dai, Xuexi Zhang, Guanling Huang, Heather Lynn, Anas Rabata, Jiurong Liang, Paul W Noble, Dianhua Jiang

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Article in American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.

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54citing papers in PubMed
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xue LiuDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.
Kristy DaiDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.
Xuexi ZhangDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.
Guanling HuangDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.
Heather LynnDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.
Anas RabataDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.
Jiurong LiangDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.ORCID 0000-0001-5179-5016
Paul W NobleDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.
Dianhua JiangDepartment of Medicine and Women's Guild Lung Institute and.ORCID 0000-0002-4508-3829
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · US

Funding

Role of Surfactant Proteins in Mediating Noninfectious Inflammatory and FibroproP01HL108793 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI JIANG, DIANHUA · 2012 to 2022
$21.3M
Innate Immune Mechanisms of Non-infectious Lung InflammationR01AI052201 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI NOBLE, PAUL WESLEY · 2002 to 2021
$6.4M
Molecular Regulation of Progressive Pulmonary FibrosisR35HL150829 · NHLBI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Paul Wesley Noble · 2020 to 2026
$5.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL108793NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL150829NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI052201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Progressive pulmonary fibrosis results from a dysfunctional tissue repair response and is characterized by fibroblast proliferation, activation, and invasion and extracellular matrix accumulation. Lung fibroblast heterogeneity is well recognized. With single-cell RNA sequencing, fibroblast subtypes have been reported by recent studies. However, the roles of fibroblast subtypes in effector functions in lung fibrosis are not well understood. In this study, we incorporated the recently published single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets on murine lung samples of fibrosis models and human lung samples of fibrotic diseases and analyzed fibroblast gene signatures. We identified and confirmed the novel fibroblast subtypes we reported recently across all samples of both mouse models and human lung fibrotic diseases, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, systemic sclerosis-associated interstitial lung disease, and coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Furthermore, we identified specific cell surface proteins for each fibroblast subtype through differential gene expression analysis, which enabled us to isolate primary cells representing distinct fibroblast subtypes by flow cytometry sorting. We compared matrix production, including fibronectin, collagen, and hyaluronan, after profibrotic factor stimulation and assessed the invasive capacity of each fibroblast subtype. Our results suggest that in addition to myofibroblasts, lipofibroblasts and Ebf1

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COVID-19Idiopathic Pulmonary FibrosisAnimalsFibroblastsFibrosisHumansLungMembrane ProteinsMiceMembrane Proteinscell surface markerextracellular matrixfibroblast subtypepulmonary fibrosissingle-cell RNA-sequencing

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