{"id":222034,"date":"2025-09-17T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/pain-detecting-nerve-cells-could-yield-new-way-to-manage-lung-scarring"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:04:17","slug":"pain-detecting-nerve-cells-could-yield-new-way-to-manage-lung-scarring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/pain-detecting-nerve-cells-could-yield-new-way-to-manage-lung-scarring","title":{"rendered":"Pain-detecting nerve cells could yield new way to manage lung scarring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pain-detecting-nerve-cells-could-yield-new-way-to-manage-lung-scarring2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Calgary studying a lethal lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis have found that neurons known to help detect pain are also critical for reducing harmful lung inflammation that leads to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Pulmonary fibrosis, also called lung scarring, is uncommon but it\u2019s hard to treat and most people die within five years of diagnosis. Research to date has focused on how the lung lining gets damaged and the body\u2019s attempts to repair the issue. The role of neurons\u2014a complex network of cells within the nervous system that send messages between the brain, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/spinal+cord\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">spinal cord<\/a> and through the body\u2014and the immune system has received less study.<\/p>\n<p>Now a research team led by Cumming School of Medicine (CSM) physician-scientist Dr. Bryan Yipp, MD, has found specific <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/nerve+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nerve cells<\/a> that normally detect pain also help control inflammation during lung fibrosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Calgary studying a lethal lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis have found that neurons known to help detect pain are also critical for reducing harmful lung inflammation that leads to the disease. Pulmonary fibrosis, also called lung scarring, is uncommon but it\u2019s hard to treat and most people die within five [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}