Specific Features of Fibrotic Lung Fibroblasts Highly Sensitive to Fibrotic Processes Mediated via TGF-β–ERK5 Interaction

• Kotaro Kadoya,
• Shinsaku Togo,
• Miniwan Tulafu,
• Yukiko Namba,
• Moe Iwai,
• Junko Watanabe,
• Takahiro Okabe,
• Jin Jin,
• Yuzo Kodama,
• Hideya Kitamura,
• Takashi Ogura,
• Norikazu Kitamura,
• Kazuho Ikeo,
• Tadayuki Takeda,
• Naoto Kondo,
• Kazuhisa Takahashi

Affiliations

Kotaro Kadoya

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shinsaku Togo

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Miniwan Tulafu

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yukiko Namba

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Moe Iwai

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Junko Watanabe

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Takahiro Okabe

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Jin Jin

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing, China

Yuzo Kodama

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hideya Kitamura

Department of Respiratory Medicine Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Takashi Ogura

Department of Respiratory Medicine Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Norikazu Kitamura

Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

Kazuho Ikeo

Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan; Department of Genetics, SOKENDAI, Mishima, Japan

Tadayuki Takeda

RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Naoto Kondo

RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies, Yokohama, Japan

Kazuhisa Takahashi

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine & Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan