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Authors
Dang, Quanjin
Huang, Chaoqun
Liang, Yurong
Surendran, Akshaya
Muthiah, Dharanya
Vaddadi, Kishore
Hewawasam, Sankha
Mills, Tingting W.
Liu, Lin
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
the National Institutes of Health (R56AG076144)
the National Institutes of Health (R01HL157450 and P30GM149368)
the Lundberg-Kienlen Endowment fund
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Article History
Received: 10 August 2025
Accepted: 24 December 2025
First Online: 29 January 2026
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: All animal experimental protocols were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Oklahoma State University (Approval number: VM-21-81).De-identified human lung samples from IPF patients were obtained through the lung transplantation programs at Memorial Hermann Hospital and The Houston Methodist Hospital. Collection of these tissues was approved by the respective institutional review boards under protocol numbers HSC-MS-15-1049 and HSC-MS-08-0354.
: All authors have read the final version of the manuscript and agree to the publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
