Yuki, Masaaki
Ishimori, Taro
Shinozaki, Youichi
Kosuge, Hirofumi
Okuda, Kenichi
Hattori, Mototaka
Shuzui, Masahiro
Saito, Minako
Isago, Hideaki
Tamiya, Hiroyuki
Nakakido, Makoto
Tsumoto, Kouhei
Tanaka, Goh
Kage, Hidenori
Ohnuma, Shinichi
Nagase, Takahide
Mitani, Akihisa
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP24K19103)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP18K08169)
Article History
Received: 19 November 2025
Accepted: 29 May 2026
First Online: 15 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The control and IPF human lung tissues were obtained from the University of North Carolina (UNC) Tissue Procurement and Cell Culture Core under the Institutional Review Board-approved protocol (Approval No. 03-1396), as approved by the UNC Office of Research Ethics Biomedical. The requirement for informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board due to the use of de-identified human tissue samples.All mouse experiments were approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Experiments of The University of Tokyo (P18-113) and were performed according to the ARRIVE guidelines and the regulations of the committee.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.