Furthermore, the increase in TGF-β expression in the mouse lung post-IR depends on IL-13, a type 2 cytokine (Chung et al., 2016), which is also tightly associated with asthma (Vignola et al., 1996; Minshall et al., 1997; Doran et al., 2017). The gene discussed is IL13; the disease is asthma.