Ji, Jie
Zheng, Shudan
Liu, Yuxin
Xie, Tian
Zhu, Xiaoyu
Nie, Yang
Shen, Yi
Han, Xiaodong
Funding for this research was provided by:
State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science (5431ZZXM2208)
Jiangsu Provincial Key Research and Development Program (BE2021707)
Article History
Received: 13 November 2022
Accepted: 15 June 2023
First Online: 19 September 2023
Declarations
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: All animal procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee for Animal Research at the Medical School of Nanjing University. Surgical biopsy specimens from IPF lung tissues were obtained from Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital. Control subjects, similar in age to IPF patients, were selected from patients with nonfibrotic lung disorders. All protocols concerning the use of patient samples in this study were approved by the Ethics Committee at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital.
: All the authors give consent.
: The authors declare no competing interest.