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ArticleFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology2025

Distinct cAMP Regulation in Scleroderma Lung and Skin Myofibroblasts Governs Their Dedifferentiation via p38α Inhibition.

Jared D Baas, John Varga, Carol Feghali-Bostwick, Marc Peters-Golden, Sean M Fortier

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Article in FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Mechanistic basis for the antifibrotic actions of cAMP-based therapies.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026
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  5. Distinct cAMP Regulation in Scleroderma Lung and Skin Myofibroblasts Governs Their Dedifferentiation via p38α Inhibition.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jared D BaasDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4088-4977
John VargaDivision of Rheumatology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6504-2496
Carol Feghali-BostwickDivision of Rheumatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-6407
Marc Peters-GoldenDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-0262
Sean M FortierDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-9586

Funding

Novel Functions of Lung Macrophages and Fibroblasts in Pulmonary Inflammation and FibrosisR35HL144979 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI PETERS-GOLDEN, MARC L · 2019 to 2025
$6.5M
Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns Driving Fibrosis Progression in SclerodermaR01AR074997 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI VARGA, JOHN · 2019 to 2023
$2.3M
Scleroderma Twin Study and analysis of Estrogen in patients with dcSScK24AR060297 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FEGHALI-BOSTWICK, CAROL A. · 2013 to 2025
$1.4M
Lung Myofibroblast De-Differentiation and Fibrosis Resolution Depend on cAMP-mediated Inhibition of HuR.K08HL163178 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Sean Michael Fortier · 2023 to 2026
$678k
National Scleroderma Foundation (SF)NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL163178NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL144979NIAMS NIH HHS K24 AR060297NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR074997
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fibrosis in systemic sclerosis/scleroderma (SSc) is characterized by the progressive accumulation and persistence in multiple organs of pathologic fibroblasts whose contractile properties and exuberant secretion of collagens promote tissue stiffness and scarring. Identifying a tractable mechanism for inactivating and possibly clearing these ultimate effector cells of progressive fibrosis, conventionally termed myofibroblasts (MFs), represents an appealing therapeutic strategy for patients with SSc. This can be accomplished by their phenotypic dedifferentiation, a process known to be promoted by the generation of the intracellular second messenger cyclic AMP (cAMP). Notably, however, the abilities of SSc fibroblasts derived from different tissues to generate cAMP-and dedifferentiate in response to it-have never been directly characterized or compared. Here we compared these two processes in lung and skin MFs derived from patients with SSc. While directly increasing intracellular cAMP induced comparable dedifferentiation of lung and skin SSc MFs, dedifferentiation in response to the well-recognized cAMP stimulus prostaglandin E

Indexed as

Cell DedifferentiationCyclic AMPLungMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 14MyofibroblastsScleroderma, SystemicSkinCells, CulturedDinoprostoneHumansCyclic AMPDinoprostoneMitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 14cyclic AMPdedifferentiationfibrosismyofibroblastp38phosphodiesteraseprostaglandin E2scleroderma

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PMID40552889
PMCPMC12186599

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