ArticlePharmacology research & perspectives2024
Cromolyn sodium and masitinib combination inhibits fibroblast-myofibroblast transition and exerts additive cell-protective and antioxidant effects on a bleomycin-induced in vitro fibrosis model.
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- Targeting immune cell migration as therapy for inflammatory disease: a review.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Cromolyn sodium and masitinib combination inhibits fibroblast-myofibroblast transition and exerts additive cell-protective and antioxidant effects on a bleomycin-induced in vitro fibrosis model.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2024Article
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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and fatal fibrotic lung disease. While recent studies have suggested the potential efficacy of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in managing IPF, masitinib, a clinically used tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has not yet been investigated for its efficacy in fibrotic lung diseases. In a previous study on an in vitro neurodegenerative model, we demonstrated the synergistic antitoxic and antioxidant effects of masitinib combined with cromolyn sodium, an FDA-approved mast cell stabilizer. This study aims to investigate the anti-fibrotic and antioxidant effects of the masitinib-cromolyn sodium combination in an in vitro model of pulmonary fibrosis. Fibroblast cell cultures treated with bleomycin and/or hydrogen peroxide (H
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