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:In spite of many compounds identified as antifibrotic in preclinical studies, pulmonary fibrosis remains a life-threatening condition for which highly effective treatment is still lacking. Towards improving the success-rate of bench-to-bedside translation, we investigated in vivo µCT-derived biomarkers to repeatedly quantify experimental silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis and assessed clinically relevant readouts up to several months after silicosis induction. Mice were oropharyngeally instilled with crystalline silica or saline and longitudinally monitored with respiratory-gated-high-resolution µCT to evaluate disease onset and progress using scan-derived biomarkers. At weeks 1, 5, 9 and 15, we assessed lung function, inflammation and fibrosis in subsets of mice in a cross-sectional manner. Silica-instillation increased the non-aerated lung volume, corresponding to onset and progression of inflammatory and fibrotic processes not resolving with time. Moreover, total lung volume progressively increased with silicosis. The volume of healthy, aerated lung first dropped then increased, corresponding to an acute inflammatory response followed by recovery into lower elevated aerated lung volume. Imaging results were confirmed by a significantly decreased Tiffeneau index, increased neutrophilic inflammation, increased IL-13, MCP-1, MIP-2 and TNF-α concentration in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, increased collagen content and fibrotic nodules. µCT-derived biomarkers enable longitudinal evaluation of early onset inflammation and non-resolving pulmonary fibrosis as well as lung volumes in a sensitive and non-invasive manner. This approach and model of non-resolving lung fibrosis provides quantitative assessment of disease progression and stabilization over weeks and months, essential towards evaluation of fibrotic disease burden and antifibrotic therapy evaluation in preclinical studies.
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Dekoster K,Decaesteker T,Berghen N,Van den Broucke S,Jonckheere AC,Wouters J,Krouglov A,Lories R,De Langhe E,Hoet P,Verbeken E,Vanoirbeek J,Vande Velde Gdoi
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