Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms23010171
Keywords
cell signaling; signal transduction; hedgehog pathway; chronic respiratory diseases; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
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- Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, and Universitas Airlangga Teaching Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia
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The hedgehog pathway is important for cell specification and proliferation, and can be reactivated in adulthood to contribute to tissue-injury-associated diseases such as IPF.
The hedgehog (Hh) pathway is a sophisticated conserved cell signaling pathway that plays an essential role in controlling cell specification and proliferation, survival factors, and tissue patterning formation during embryonic development. Hh signal activity does not entirely disappear after development and may be reactivated in adulthood within tissue-injury-associated diseases, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The dysregulation of Hh-associated activating transcription factors, genomic abnormalities, and microenvironments is a co-factor that induces the initiation and progression of IPF.
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