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. 2023 Mar 2;21:164. doi: 10.1186/s12967-023-04018-5

Table 1.

Common clinical disease models and animal models in organ fibrosis

Organ Clinical disease models Animal models
Lung Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), radiation induced pulmonary fibrosis Bleomycin induced pulmonary fibrosis
Heart Myocardial infarction (MI) cardiomyopathy, chronic heart failure MI induced cardiac fibrosis, transverse aortic constriction (TAC) induced cardiac fibrosis, Ang-II induced cardiac fibrosis
Liver Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), alcoholic liver disease (ALD) viral hepatitis CCl4 induced liver fibrosis, thioacetamide (TAA) induced liver fibrosis, bile duct ligation (BDL) induced liver fibrosis
Kidney Chronic kidney disease (CKD) easpecially diabetic and hypertrophic nephropathy Ischemia–reperfusion injury (IRI) induced renal fibrosis, unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) induced renal fibrosis
Skin Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), hypertrophic scar and keloid Bleomycin induced skin fibrosis