Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, lethal interstitial lung disease in which the aberrant PTEN/Akt axis plays a major role in conferring a survival phenotype in response to the cell dea
BackgroundIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and sarcopenia significantly affect patients’ quality of life. The progression and worsening of these conditions are often associated with endoplasmic ret
Background and objective: The role of bronchiolar epithelial cells in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis has not been addressed. We previously demonstrated that DNA damage was found in bronchiole