Abstract

Tissue fibrosis is a major driver of pathology in aging and is involved in numerous age-related diseases. The lungs are particularly susceptible to fibrotic pathology which is currently difficult to treat. The mouse bleomycin-induced fibrosis model was developed to investigate lung fibrosis and widely used over the years. However, a systematic analysis of the accumulated results has not been performed. We undertook a comprehensive data mining and subsequent manual curation, resulting in a collection of 213 genes (available at the TiRe database, www.tiredb.org), which when manipulated had a clear impact on bleomycin-induced lung fibrosis. Our meta-analysis highlights the age component in pulmonary fibrosis and strong links of related genes with longevity. The results support the validity of the bleomycin model to human pathology and suggest the importance of a multi-target therapeutic strategy for pulmonary fibrosis treatment.

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Title
Systems biology analysis of lung fibrosis-related genes in the bleomycin mouse model
Author
Toren Dmitri 1 ; Yanai Hagai 2 ; Abu Taha Reem 3 ; Bunu Gabriela 4 ; Ursu Eugen 4 ; Ziesche Rolf 5 ; Tacutu Robi 4 ; Fraifeld, Vadim E 3 

 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging, Beer-Sheva, Israel (GRID:grid.7489.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0511); Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Systems Biology of Aging Group, Bucharest, Romania (GRID:grid.418333.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 1389) 
 National Institute on Aging, NIH, Epigenetics and Stem Cell Unit, Translational Gerontology Branch, Baltimore, USA (GRID:grid.419475.a) (ISNI:0000 0000 9372 4913) 
 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Shraga Segal Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Center for Multidisciplinary Research on Aging, Beer-Sheva, Israel (GRID:grid.7489.2) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 0511) 
 Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy, Systems Biology of Aging Group, Bucharest, Romania (GRID:grid.418333.e) (ISNI:0000 0004 1937 1389) 
 Medical University of Vienna, Internal Medicine II/Pulmonology, Wien, Austria (GRID:grid.22937.3d) (ISNI:0000 0000 9259 8492) 
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2577606595
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.