CCL2 and allergic asthma: In the lung, CCL2 is mainly produced by lung macrophages, T cells and endothelial cells and is involved in endothelial and pulmonary epithelial cell proliferation, migration and wound closure, and is associated with a variety of diseases with disorders of lung inflammation, including COPD (Henrot et al., 2019), acute respiratory distress syndrome, allergic asthma and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (Rose et al., 2003).