C-MSCs co-cultured with IPF-MSCs (C-MSC (IPF-MSC)) showed significantly higher levels of expression of all the analyzed genes, and exception of IL12, NRF2, CAT, and NFkB whose increase was not statistically significant (Figure 6A), than C-MSCs cultured alone. Here, NFKB1 is linked to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.