Title : Cyclooxygenase-2 deficiency results in a loss of the anti-proliferative response to transforming growth factor-beta in human fibrotic lung fibroblasts and promotes bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in mice.

Pub. Date : 2001 Apr

PMID : 11290559






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1 We conclude that a decreased capacity to up-regulate COX-2 expression and COX-2-derived PGE(2) synthesis in the presence of increasing levels of profibrotic mediators such as TGF-beta(1) may lead to unopposed fibroblast proliferation and collagen synthesis and contribute to the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis. Prostaglandins E mitochondrially encoded cytochrome c oxidase II Homo sapiens