Pan, Xiaoyue
Xia, Cong
Gan, Yulong
Cao, Ying
Zhao, Man
Liu, Huibing
Zhou, Yanlin
Wang, Yuqi
Li, Zhongzheng
Li, Bin
Wang, Lan
Yu, Guoying https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4124-1359
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2019YFE0119500)
Henan Provincial Science and Technology Research Project (232102521025)
Henan Provincial Science and Technology Research Project (GZS2023008)
Henan Provincial Science and Technology Research Project (242102310157)
Key R&D Program of Henan province grant (231111310400)
Zhongyuan scholar (244000510009)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2025
Revised: 27 March 2026
Accepted: 3 May 2026
First Online: 16 May 2026
Declarations
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: All animal maintenance and experimental procedures were conducted in accordance with the guidelines of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Henan Normal University (IACUC, SMKX-2118BS1018), which comply with the standards of the Association for Animal Behavior and national regulations. Lung tissue samples from patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-IPF controls were collected at Henan Provincial Chest Hospital following the ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guidelines. The study protocol was approved by the Medical Research Ethics Committee of Henan Provincial Chest Hospital (No. 2019-05-07), and written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to surgery. All procedures involving human subjects were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
: All authors reviewed the results and contributed to the final manuscript. All authors approved this manuscript for publication.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest concerning the contents of this article.