Effect of IFN-gamma and dexamethasone on TGF-beta1-induced human fetal lung fibroblast-myofibroblast differentiation.

Abstract

TGF-beta1 induced fibroblast-myofibroblast differentiation in a Smad proteins-dependent manner. IFN-gamma could block this process but it was not mediated by interrupting smad2/3 phosphorylation and their nuclear translocation and DEX played a synergism with TGF-beta1. Differentiated myofibroblasts, however, were resistant to both IFN-gamma and DEX.