Franco Conforti
Southampton, ENG, United Kingdom
Last Updated: 09/26/2026
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Found 19 publications
Ultrafine particulate matter emitted from ships drives inflammation and susceptibility to viral infection.
Journal: Environment international
Published: February 16, 2026
Beneficial effects of the AT2 receptor agonist buloxibutid (C21) against acute alveolar epithelial cell inflammation during antiviral responses.
Journal: ERJ open research
Published: February 21, 2025
Copper-enriched automotive brake wear particles perturb human alveolar cellular homeostasis.
Journal: Particle and fibre toxicology
Published: September 19, 2024
Spatial transcriptomic validation of a biomimetic model of fibrosis enables re-evaluation of a therapeutic antibody targeting LOXL2.
Journal: Cell reports. Medicine
Published: July 10, 2023
Towards an artificial human lung: modelling organ-like complexity to aid mechanistic understanding.
Journal: The European respiratory journal
Published: March 01, 2022
Bidirectional epithelial-mesenchymal crosstalk provides self-sustaining profibrotic signals in pulmonary fibrosis.
Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry
Published: June 10, 2021
A novel ACE2 isoform is expressed in human respiratory epithelia and is upregulated in response to interferons and RNA respiratory virus infection.
Journal: Nature genetics
Published: July 26, 2020
Paracrine SPARC signaling dysregulates alveolar epithelial barrier integrity and function in lung fibrosis.
Journal: Cell death discovery
Published: April 06, 2020
Autophagy inhibition-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition augments local myofibroblast differentiation in pulmonary fibrosis.
Journal: Cell death & disease
Published: May 02, 2019
Establishment of a pulmonary epithelial barrier on biodegradable poly-L-lactic-acid membranes.
Journal: PloS one
Published: September 04, 2018
Paracrine signalling during ZEB1-mediated epithelial-mesenchymal transition augments local myofibroblast differentiation in lung fibrosis.
Journal: Cell death and differentiation
Published: May 08, 2018
Last Updated: 09/26/2026