“…Elevated transcription levels of these factors can be synchronously detected in the cells (Schafer et al, 2017;Álvarez et al, 2017). SASP in IPF senescent fibroblasts includes proinflammatory cytokines (such as TNF-α, TGF-β, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-18), chemokines (such as CXCL1, MCP-1), growth regulators (such as FGF, CTGF, GM-CSF, M-CSF, PDGF), matrix metalloproteinases (such as MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-9, MMP-10, MMP-12), and leukotrienes (LTs, such as LTA4, LTB4, LTC4, LTD4) (Kortlever et al, 2006;Acosta et al, 2008;Rodier et al, 2009;Kojima et al, 2012;Aoshiba et al, 2013;Demaria et al, 2014;Le et al, 2014;Hayakawa et al, 2015;Jun and Lau, 2017;Schafer et al, 2017;Álvarez et al, 2017;Wiley et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2019;Blokland et al, 2020). Thus, SASP is essentially a concept that belongs to secretomes, which cannot be fully described by several biomarkers' up-regulation or down-regulation.…”