CXCR3 and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: CXCR3-dependent accumulation and activation of monocytes or macrophages have been shown to play a critical role in homeostatic arterial remodeling in response to hemodynamic stresses (Zhou et al., 2010) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Costa et al., 2016), as well as in mycobacterial infection (Torraca et al., 2015).