A later report from the same group demonstrated that selective pharmacological inhibition of NEU1 using C9-butyl-amide-2-deoxy-2,3-dehydro-N-acetylneuraminic acid (C9-BA-DANA), attenuated collagen accumulation in the lungs and pulmonary lymphocytosis in the acute and chronic bleomycin models of lung fibrosis (48). Here, NEU1 is linked to pulmonary fibrosis.