• lungs from doxycycline treated mice show hallmarks of interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, including reticular opacities, traction bronchiectasis, and honeycombing-like cysts with spatially heterogenous distribution in peripheral regions of the lung
• lungs from doxycycline treated mice show areas of patchy fibrosis of the alveolar interstitium associated with inflammatory infiltrates, alpha smooth muscle actin-positive fibroblast foci-like structures, increased collagen deposition, septal wall thickening, hypertrophy of alveolar type 2 cells, subpleural microscopic honeycombing-like cysts, and Muc5b-positive material within fibrotic areas of peripheral airspaces
• mice treated with pirfenidone for 4 weeks two months after tamoxifen induction, when lungs show first signs of fibrotic remodeling, exhibit reduced fibrosis