Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cells in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis express a complex pro-inflammatory, pro-repair, angiogenic activation pattern, likely associated with macrophage iron accumulation

• Jungnam Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jungnam Lee, Ivan Arisi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Ivan Arisi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jungnam Lee, Ivan Arisi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Software

  Affiliation Genomics Facility, European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy

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• Ermanno Puxeddu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Lazarus K. Mramba,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Massimo Amicosante †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Carmen M. Swaisgood,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Marco Pallante,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

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• Mark L. Brantly,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• C. Magnus Sköld,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine Unit, and Lung-Allergy Clinic, Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Cesare Saltini

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cesare.saltini@medicine.ufl.edu

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8976-4917

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